[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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