"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

Memory, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

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"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

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"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."

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