There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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 memory Venice is always magic.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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