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Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person t

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when Im alone and trying to solve a sentence. Its exciting, even when its frustrating, even when I cant do it right. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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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

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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. Im also very proud of being a very American chef. – Bobby Flay

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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They wont date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. – Patti Stanger

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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. – Ellen G. White

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Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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