There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Kindness 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.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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