to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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