Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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