Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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[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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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