to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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[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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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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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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