In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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[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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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 have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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