truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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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Weather creates character.
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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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