Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an …

John Irving
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. ✨ John Irving (2012). In One Person: A Novel, p.260, Simon and Schuster
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