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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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