There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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 acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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