One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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