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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
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New York
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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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Weather creates character.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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 sleep is an act of faith.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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