The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Weather creates character.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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my 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).
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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