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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
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Weather
Character

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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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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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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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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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