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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its no

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey

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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, thats enough. I cant do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my mornings work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine. – Peter Carey

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Morning
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Peter Carey
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I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. – Peter Carey

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Courage
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Peter Carey
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Its sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? Thats the level where I want to go. – Frank Black

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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. – Jesse Owens

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Forget about being world famous, its hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. – Doug Coupland

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The whole celebrity culture thing – Im fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. – Anderson Cooper

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