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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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground...There's not one food that causes diabetes...Be candid with everyone...In our age there is no such thing...There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet...There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty...