All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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