"Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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“The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.”
“I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.”
“Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”
“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
“We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

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