All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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