To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Weather creates character.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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