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God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Slams
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Cookies
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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
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Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.
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Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
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I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.
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Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.
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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
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Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
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Your tears are my prayers.
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Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
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It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
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