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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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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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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 wanted to go hide. I wasnt looking to be more famous, Im famous enough. – Howard Stern

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There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous persons lifestyle that really isnt suited to me. – Daniel Radcliffe

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We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. – Lew Wasserman

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Im not unknown, yet Im not super famous where I cant go anywhere. – Justin Guarini

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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