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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Artist Husband Movement
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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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 sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Care Sports Water
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence

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