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I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
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I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.
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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
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The resting place of the mind is the heart.
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To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
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The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
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Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
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Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.
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Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.
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What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
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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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