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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Weather creates character.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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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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