All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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[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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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 are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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