Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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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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  Children, Responsibility, Goodness

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Food is my drug of choice.

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  Food, Choices, Drug

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• 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.

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  Doctrine, Tradition, Absence

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

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  Mean, Feelings, Facts

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

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  Ideas, People, Original Ideas

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• Porches are America's lost rooms.

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  America, Rooms, Lost

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1996). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Houghton Mifflin

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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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  Inspirational, Art, Reality

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• All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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  Success, Creativity, Ideas

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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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  Dying, Embarrassment, Humiliation

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• To sleep is an act of faith.

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  Sleep, Can't Sleep

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• Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

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  Add, Generations, Wheels

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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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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  Kindness, Imagination, Pitfalls

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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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  Believe, Belief, Music Is

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• Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

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  Rome, Lows, All Things

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• My mother was my first jealous lover.

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  Mother, Jealous, Firsts

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• I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

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  Thinking, Looks, Single Women

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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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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  Fun, Serious Work, Anarchy

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

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  Prayer, Thinking, Sometimes

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Desire creates its own object.

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  Desire, Objects

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• We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

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  Betrayal, Fall, Love Is

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.201, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

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  Rome, Lessons, Matter

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.319, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

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  Soul, Priceless, Possession

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.211, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Tired, Rome, Wish

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.343, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

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  Waiting, Permanence

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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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  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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