Doris Lessing
(1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Variant:
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