There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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