to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The past is a sorry country.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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