There are no inanimate objects.
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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Desire creates its own object.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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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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