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 HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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