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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
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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Art Inspirational Reality
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
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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Children Goodness Responsibility
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
[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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Belief Believe Music
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
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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Rome Tired Wish
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed

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