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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
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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).
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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