Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Desire creates its own object.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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