to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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