One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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Desire creates its own object.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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