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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
Creates
Weather
Character

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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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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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It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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