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.
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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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