"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

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"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

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