Michael Korda
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly...Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with...Fear is the foundation of safety...Having children is my greatest achievement...Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?...There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman...
