Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

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Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures · 1990

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Lost youth Youth vs. old age Old age

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1990

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Terry Pratchett

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Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

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