To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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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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[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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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