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.
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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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