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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Disorder
Trusted
Disaster
Beauty
Sometimes
World
Fraud

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When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
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I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
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We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
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That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.
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So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
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The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.
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As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul even one puff is bad for you.
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Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
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Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.
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I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.
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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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I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.
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I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.
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A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!
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