There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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