Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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