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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#arrives #believed #both #coming #either

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. ↗

— William Gilbert

#how #i #idea #little #myself

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

#behind #bluntly #clock #could #drinking

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

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#autonomous #become #being #guardian #i

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cultures #destiny #fault #find #i

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#funny #go #good #good mom #great

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

#did #dire #drinks #get #how

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#course #does #energy #energy sources #everything

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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