One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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