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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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives...Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand...My power is the ability to control water...We are not here to curse the darkness...Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise...Nothing can be more absurd than the practice...