Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Weather creates character.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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