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ANITA STEWART Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren'... JENNIFER NIVEN New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering wh... MAX VON SYDOW It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively... SAMANTHA BEE In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you g... BRYAN FERRY I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't s... ADAM GOPNIK Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call m... ALAN ALDA I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York... 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NAS But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it ... NIGELLA LAWSON New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin... DOUGLAS BRUNT People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity o... KEN KESEY When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th... GREG RUSEDSKI My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see. KYLE CHANDLER I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarter... DAN AYKROYD You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgic... ATUL GAWANDE I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a li... 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Eventually, everything goes away. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m... ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN