Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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To 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.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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