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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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 is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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