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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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?
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Weather creates character.
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