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 HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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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 past can be tamed and controlled.
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