To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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