The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Weather creates character.
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