Harlan Coben
American author
I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back and fix the mistake, I wouldn’t be here.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 January 2022 source ↗
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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
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Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
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I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
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It feels like all is possible.
My children’s education.
Trying to sell frozen food over the phone for a company called American Frozen Foods. It lasted about half an hour. I found myself telling people not to buy too much of it because it could go bad, and my supervisor said, “This job is probably not for you.”
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