I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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What you desire you call into being.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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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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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 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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Weather creates character.
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