Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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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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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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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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What you desire you call into being.
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