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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Wait
Learning
Either
Waiting
Learn
Change
Invariably
Heart
Novelists
Things
Patience

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