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If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Winston Groom

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Tags: growing up, mistakes, young

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About Winston Groom

Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American author. He is best known for his best-selling novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a 1990s cultural phenomenon after being adapted as the film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. Groom wrote a sequel, Gump and Co., published in 1995. His last novel was El Paso (2016).
Groom wrote a total of fifteen nonfiction works on such varied subjects as the American Civil War and World War I, including five multiple biographies.