Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFacts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The past is a sorry country.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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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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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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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Weather creates character.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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