Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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