Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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What you desire you call into being.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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[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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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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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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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