Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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The past is a sorry country.
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