“This is how you knew what a fool was—someone who didn't know what mattered to him in the long run”

Children, p. 97
Rock Springs (1987)

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American novelist and short story writer 1944

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“This is how you knew what a fool was—someone who didn't know what mattered to him in the long run”

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