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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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