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 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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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