There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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The past is a sorry country.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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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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