Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Responsibility
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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Doctrine Tradition
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears
There are no inanimate objects.

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There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
In memory Venice is always magic.

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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Venice
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Sometimes
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.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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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Pitfalls
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Other
[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.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Hostage
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

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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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Boundaries Perfect
Silence is the garment of light.

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Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis
To sleep is an act of faith.

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To sleep is an act of faith.
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