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Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Approximate author period: c. 1975 AD · modern
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- Michael Crichton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1975 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1942 to 2008; Wikidata Q172140, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172140 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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