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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Inspirational Quotes (40)

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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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 live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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