Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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