The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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