truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Desire creates its own object.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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