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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON[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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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