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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I liked myself better when I wasn't me...I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life...You may have to fight a battle more than once...In the central place of every heart, there is a recording...Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved...Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor...