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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
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
journalist, novelist, essayist, writer
1934 – 2002
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, and for her travel writing.
All Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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
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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