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When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.

Zoë Heller

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Zoë Heller
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 7
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St Pancras
London
Paint
Tried
Everyone
Else
Trying
Matisse
Something
Behaved
Gypsy
Rose

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