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 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?
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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