The past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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[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.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Weather creates character.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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