Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The past is a sorry country.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Desire creates its own object.
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