Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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