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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

#begins #deal #did #down #down the road

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bring #cannot #finally #guests #happened

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

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

#after #another #anything #book #came

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#identity #me #old #search #truth

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#chimneys #close #fast #gave #ground

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football. ↗

— David Gill

#assess #board #coming #down #european

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#business #give #i #job #people

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#each #everyone #i #i wonder #looking