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“No one has ever told you anything that would stop you, not from doing something you wanted.” “That’s because everything I’ve ever done I believed in.” quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen — Download Open image

““No one has ever told you anything that would stop you, not from doing something you wanted.” “That’s because everything I’ve ever done I believed in.””

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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