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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Time
Discounting
Yearning
Offered
Forever

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