Silence is the garment of light.
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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Weather creates character.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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