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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

[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 Believe Music
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Borders Pulse Travel
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Cities Garden Travel
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Evil Pain Struggle
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
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 HARRISON

Art Inspirational Reality
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Rome Tired Wish
What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Call Creativity Desire

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