There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Weather creates character.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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