[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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