Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The past is a sorry country.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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