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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
Creates
Weather
Character

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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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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
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