[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 HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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