Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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 dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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