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“I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.”

Quote by Orrin Woodward

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Orrin Woodward is a renowned author, with his specific birth and death dates unknown. more

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“You didn’t hear the story I told,” he goes on. “A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like.”

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