Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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