"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
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"Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.“
-Elizabeth Gilbert
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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
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"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
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"As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change."
-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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"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
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"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
-Kevin Alejandro
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"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
-Frank Waters
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"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
-Christian Cooke
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
-Anne Boyd
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"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
-Anne Boyd
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"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons
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