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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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