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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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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 is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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