it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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