There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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