To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Weather creates character.
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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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