the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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[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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