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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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