"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

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“People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.”
“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”

Source : Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr
“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”
“I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.”
“I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.”
“Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.”
“I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.”

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