"I thought I would be an organic chemist.……" — Peter Carey
"I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
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