There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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 places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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