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).
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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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