The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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