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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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
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As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.
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Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.
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we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
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Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
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Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
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Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.
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You love new boyfriend? I think so. Yes. Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
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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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There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.
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