Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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