Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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