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I was with him...
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Kinski and I complemented each
other in a strange way.
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I think, he needed me just as
much as I needed him.
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Only in public, he could never admit
it. It bothered him very much.
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in his autobiography, which is
highly fictitious, he describes me...
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...our relationship.
I shall read some of it.
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He speaks of Herzog's "derangement
insolence, imputence, brutality...
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...dimwittedness, megalomania, lack
of talent" and it goes on like that.
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He continous: "Any elaboration
would be a waste of time."
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Nevertheless, page after page,
he comes back to me...
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...almost like an
obsessive compulsion.
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in some passages of this book,
I kind of had a hand in them.
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I helped him to invent
particularly vile expletives.
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He lived near here, a little higher
up, and we often walked along here.
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Sometimes we sat on a wooden
bench, looking over the landscape...
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...or we sat by this tree
musing, and he said:
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"Werner, nobody will read this book
if I don't write bad stuff about you.
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If I wrote that we get along well
together, nobody would buy it.
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The scum only wants to hear
about the dirt, all the time."
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I came with a dictionary and we tried
to find even fouler expressions.
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He did use some of them and
we often laughed about it.
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Yet, a lot of these outbreaks of
hatred were certainly authentic.
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And this applies to both of us.
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Nevertheless, we
worked together again.