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I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
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You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.
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What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
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I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
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There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
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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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Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
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Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
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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 think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
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