There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. (John Dos Passos)

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

John Dos Passos

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