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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 can do whatever I want – Im rich, Im famous, and Im bigger than you. – Don Johnson

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For now Im just enjoying being a mom. I dont want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. – Jewel

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I had a sense of who I was before I got famous. – Joe Rogan

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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. – Elliott Erwitt

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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