Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Desire creates its own object.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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