There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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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.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The past is a sorry country.
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