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My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.