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(What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people. — Daniel M. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. — William Gilbert

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I — Elizabeth Gilbert

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new. — Gilbert Ryle

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity. — Gilbert Highet

So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you, — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law. — W.S. Gilbert

Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too. — Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir. — Elizabeth Gilbert

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. — Gilbert Gottfried

Only death can cure the hip dilettante. — Gilbert Sorrentino

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. — L. Wolfe Gilbert

You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win. — Gilbert Arenas

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. — L.M. Montgomery

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He was still my romantic hero and I was still his living
dream — Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you can't live it down, might as well live it up. — Brantley Gilbert

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect. — Sara Gilbert

Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancybrig,
And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
And the crew of the captain's gig! — W.S. Gilbert

Progress is the mother of all problems. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The moderns do not realize modernity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy. — Daniel M. Gilbert

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other. — Gilbert Arenas

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self. — Elizabeth Gilbert

his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Balinese don't wait and see "how things go." That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Painting working! — Elizabeth Gilbert

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent. — George M. Gilbert

Tomorrow is no man's gift. — Gilbert Parker

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun. — Gilbert Morris

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet

My life didn't get good until I died, Alex. The very best part of it has been here in this flat, with you. — L.A. Gilbert

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert

Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. — W.S. Gilbert

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Struggle explained everything. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the wall there are many doors. Be patient, search with diligence, for one will open to your key. And oh, the land beyond is very fair. — Nan Gilbert

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. "We're Texans silly. — Kellie Coates Gilbert

Faith means believing the unbelievable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way. — W.S. Gilbert

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. — Jack Gilbert

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Bless your heart, they don't mind
they're exceedingly
kind
They don't blame you
as long as you're funny! — W.S. Gilbert

I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life? — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is there anyone ... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn? — W.S. Gilbert

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Thanks are the highest form of thought. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You learn to smile even in you liver?'
'Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver. — Elizabeth Gilbert