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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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