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“Well, you can't tell it from looking at him…It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.” quote by Ann Patchett — Download Open image

““Well, you can't tell it from looking at him…It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.””

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