[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More Quotes From Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison romance quality dream to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison crisis stress trouble Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison illness crime There are no inanimate objects. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison inanimate-objects objects 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison sports water sex In memory Venice is always magic. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison venice magic memories Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison abiding medicine soul 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison care sports water I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison mistake past thinking All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison permanence waiting Silence is the garment of light. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison garments silence light The past can be tamed and controlled. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison tamed controlled past 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison regret home hands Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison unhappiness grief belief Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison understanding belief faith 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. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison garden cities travel I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison architecture boundaries perfect I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison single-women looks thinking We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison betrayal love-is fall Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . . Barbara Grizzuti Harrison prayer sometimes thinking
