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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.


Elizabeth George

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ELIZABETH GILBERT Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tem...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The peach gown she'd chosen was the color of the sunrise, the rippling watered silk seeming to subtl...
ELIZABETH HOYT I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it&...
ELIZABETH WARREN Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference—with words...
- ELIZABETH HARDWICK What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
ELIZABETH GILBERT If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.
KATY ELIZABETH When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you i...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the d...
ELIZABETH WARREN He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perf...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's.
ELIZABETH NOBLE America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and ov...
ELIZABETH WARREN Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK And Then We Kiss ... Fantasy.
ELIZABETH ARDEN At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn h...
ELIZABETH ANDERSON