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[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 Harrison

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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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Art Inspirational Reality
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
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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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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Airplane Thinking Weight
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
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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Mistake Past Thinking
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People

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