Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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