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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Loves

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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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