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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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 our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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