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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.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Always Danger Deliver Failures Human Human Relationships Imagination Intelligence Kindness Love Out Pitfalls Relationships Take Traps Us Way Will

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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Absence Belief Illusion Illusions Itself

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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Awesome Because Children Create Depends Future God Goodness Image Imagining Like Nobility Our Ourselves Own Responsibility Revolutionaries True World

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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Ideas Only Original Original Ideas People

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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.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Awesome Because Children Create Depends Future Goodness Image Imagining Nobility Our Ourselves Responsibility

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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Confirm Our Propensity Reality Share Sharing Universal Women

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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.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Acts Also Begin Dress Fantasies Imagination More Performed Plans Reality Rehearsals Than Unpleasant World

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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Beware Carrying Ideas People

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Between Evil Good Good And Evil Lesser Moral Most Painful Struggles Those

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Desire creates its own object.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Creates Desire Object Own

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 14th, 1934

Died: April 24th, 2002

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