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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Intimacy
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Stories

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There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
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I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.
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I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.
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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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I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
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Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.
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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 am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
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I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
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Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
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Your tears are my prayers.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
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You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.
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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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Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
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Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
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