Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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