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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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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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