All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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