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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
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.
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Sex Sports Water
What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Call Creativity Desire
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
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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Artist Husband Movement
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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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Dream Quality Romance
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding

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