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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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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