Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Weather creates character.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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