The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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Weather creates character.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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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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