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The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.


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ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER