There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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What you desire you call into being.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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