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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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