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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Queens
New York
Originals
Original
Ideas
People

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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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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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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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