To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The past is a sorry country.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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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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