The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONHow 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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