Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy 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).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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 no inanimate objects.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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