“When you’re young you never doubt yourself. You never wonder if you’re justified. But as a man gets older he learns to doubt. Whether he can do a thing—whether he should.”

—  C. L. Moore

Source: Doomsday Morning (1957), Chapter 13 (p. 103)

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