"Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties."

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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs