my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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What you desire you call into being.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Our 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.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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