There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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