All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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