True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Elizabeth Gilbert
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given...
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given...
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given...
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given...
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In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote describes a character who has lived a life of poverty and misery. When he is visited by a man from out of town, they begin to discuss their past. This man comments on how different his life was growing up in a different place and time. He then asks him how he was able to turn his life around and get out of poverty.

The main character replies that it was simply because it was impossible not to get out of poverty. This illustrates the idea that there is no escaping the circumstances you are born into. However, what the character did do was push himself further down into this impossible situation.

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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