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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Mistake Past Thinking
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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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Children Goodness Responsibility
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
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
[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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Belief Believe Music
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
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
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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
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
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
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
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed

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