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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Thought is only a flash between two long nights...Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal...I am, by nature, pretty reserved. It was after...The brunette phase just came about...When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me...The best argument against democracy...
