Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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 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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Weather creates character.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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[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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Desire creates its own object.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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