Quotes from bookEat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks. The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures. The film version, which stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.Gilbert followed up this book with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, released through Viking in January 2010. It covered her life after Eat, Pray, Love, plus an exploration of the concept of marriage.
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
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This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
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“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”
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“You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.”
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“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”
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“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”
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Variant: You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless
devaluation of self.
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