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" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "

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" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

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To Be Or Not To Be

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Totalitarianism

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