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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

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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. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. ↗

— William Gilbert

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You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience. ↗

— Crispin Glover

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Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes? ↗

— George Gobel

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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. ↗

— Howard Stringer

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