What you desire you call into being.
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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past is a sorry country.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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