“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

—  Marc Acito

Source: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

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American novelist, humorist, screenwriter 1966

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