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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Second place is just the first place loser...We are most alive when we're in love...Family life is too intimate to be preserved...When a man tells you that he got rich...My local newspaper, the 'Bend Bulletin'...We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone...