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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

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Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

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I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

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