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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."



I find that this was Alexander Herzen in Pole Star: Simon Leys quotes him in an essay collected in The Hall of Uselessness.


But if you have grandchildren ... they'll probably read them one day :-)




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