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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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