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You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
A.S. Byatt
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for A. S. Byatt: documented activity in 1964. Wikidata Q232417, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232417 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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