Weather creates character.
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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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