The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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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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The past is a sorry country.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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