I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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What you desire you call into being.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The past is a sorry country.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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