All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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