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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Lev Grossman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1969; activity date not established; Wikidata Q2558063, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2558063 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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