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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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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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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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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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