All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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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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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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