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The past is a sorry country.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Art Inspirational Reality
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Absence Doctrine Tradition
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other

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