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Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
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I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.
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I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.
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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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Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.
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It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.
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But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.
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I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'
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Your tears are my prayers.
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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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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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I said, It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close? Nah, he said casually. She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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