truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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