The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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