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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The past is a sorry country.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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