Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Weather creates character.
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