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As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul even one puff is bad for you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Puff
Lungs
Resentment
Smoking
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I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.
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every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
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