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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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