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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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New York
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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