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cafard
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I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017)
A quotation from somebody--the book I got it from is upstairs, but somebody's working in that room:
"Who is entitled to write his memoirs? Everyone. Because no one is required to read them."
cafard
on Dec 2, 2020
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I find that this was Alexander Herzen in
Pole Star
: Simon Leys quotes him in an essay collected in
The Hall of Uselessness
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quickthrower2
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But if you have grandchildren ... they'll probably read them one day :-)
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"Who is entitled to write his memoirs? Everyone. Because no one is required to read them."