To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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