There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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