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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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