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 HARRISONAll acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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