truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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 past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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