Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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