Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONHow do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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.
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Weather creates character.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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