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What you desire you call into being.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Queens
New York
Desire
Creativity
Call

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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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