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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.

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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
Permanence
Waiting
Change
Work

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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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.
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What you desire you call into being.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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 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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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