truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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