“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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American writer 1969

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