Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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