The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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 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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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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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.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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