But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right. (John Lanchester)

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

John Lanchester

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