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Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
A. S. Byatt
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A. S. Byatt
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 24
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Sheffield
England
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
Antonia Susan Drabble
Antonia Susan Duffy
Lying
Tell
Self
Autobiographies
Indulgent
Indulgence
Autobiography
Lies
Fiction
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