it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past is a sorry country.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Weather creates character.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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