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What you desire you call into being.

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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
Creativity
Call
Desire

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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Weather creates character.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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