All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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