The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Weather creates character.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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