To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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 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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[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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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