"Just as there exists in writing a literal……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true."
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,…
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always…
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world,…
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that…
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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More Anatomy Quotes
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
— Erma Bombeck
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had…
— Sydney Brenner
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence…
— Carl Sagan
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
— Claude Bernard
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time…
— Thomas Huxley
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