[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Weather creates character.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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