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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
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Queens
New York
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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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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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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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Desire creates its own object.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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