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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past is a sorry country.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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