All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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