There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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 sleep is an act of faith.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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