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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Weather creates character.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Every 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.
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To 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.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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