“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171
“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”
Source: Incantation
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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952Related quotes
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