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The past can be tamed and controlled.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

[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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Belief Believe Music
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Artistic Autobiography Strikes
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dream Quality Romance
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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Care Sports Water
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
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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Mistake Past Thinking
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
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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Sex Sports Water
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Children Goodness Responsibility
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel

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