truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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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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[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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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