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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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