I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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