I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's…

Orson Scott Card
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet, p.274, Macmillan
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