What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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