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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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