Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out …

Ray Bradbury
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. ✨ Ray Bradbury (1962). Something wicked this way comes: a novel, Bantam
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