To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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