Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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