Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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