One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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