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Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Take
Someplace
Silent
Together

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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no professionals. This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.
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That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.
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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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That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.
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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
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I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
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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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You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
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Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
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I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
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Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.
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If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.
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I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, If you tell anyone what you've seen...
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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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