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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
Autobiographer
Journalist
Peace Activist
Pedagogue
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Professor
University Teacher
Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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