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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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