to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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 do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Weather creates character.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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