What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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 the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Desire creates its own object.
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