My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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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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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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