All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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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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What you desire you call into being.
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