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What you desire you call into being.

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
Call
Desire
Creativity

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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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