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You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.
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True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
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If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.
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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
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According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.
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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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For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
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I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
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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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whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
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I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
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You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.
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Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)
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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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