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Porches are America’s lost rooms.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Cities Garden Travel
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Change Permanence Waiting Work
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
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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Hands Home Regret
[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Belief Believe Music
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands

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