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I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Assume Consider Cook Dinner Dinner Party Drink Eat Fantastic Good His House Husband Italian Meant More Mother Our Party People Really Starving Than Walk Where You

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Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Comprehend Discipline Divinity Great Her Human Just Mine Old Person Personal Personal Relationship Relationship Rigor Simple Story Trying

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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Make Makes People Selfish Selfishness

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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: About After Another Anything Book Came Check Decades Exceedingly Forward Four Going Judged Know Last Left Like Likely Maybe Me Old Only Out Point Pretty Right Still Success Which Work World Write Years You Young I Write

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But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: About Afraid Anybody Been Earth Expected Feel Know Lately Logical Put Rational Should Sort Thing Thinking Were Why Work Writing You

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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.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Because Behind Could Drinking Exceedingly Friends Gin Go Greatest Here Jesus Just Kind Know Lead Likely Me Morning Nine Now Oh Person Put Should Sort Start Success Success Is Thought Want You

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You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Actually Cannot Come Even Fact Had Honestly How Ideas Identify In Fact Keep Know Lose Make Me Might Minds Our Relate Sane Source Thing Through Us Way Will Work You

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When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Against Asking Assumption Battle Beat Constantly Culture Doing Enormous Going How Intention Love Now People Questions Say Somebody Start Success Two Which You Your Yourself I Love

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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Always Around Change Constant Frightening Hold Hoping Like Lives Neck Our Our Lives Ourselves Protect Sadly Somehow Something Which

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These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: About Also Believe Days Fact Feeling Human In Fact Keeping Me Most Only Percent Sane Settle Sure Things Time I Believe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 18th, 1969

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