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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Weather creates character.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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