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Do you consider the book to be
autobiographical?
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Well, I mean,
is anything autobiographical?
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We all see the world through
our own tiny keyhole, right?
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I mean, I always think of
Thomas Wolfe, you know,
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if you ever seen that little
one page note to reader
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in the front of "Look Homeward, Angel",
you know what I'm talking about?
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Anyway, he says that we are
the sum of all the moments of our lives,
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and that anybody who sits down to write
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is gonna use the clay of their own mind,
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that you can't avoid that.
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So when I look at my own life,
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you know, I have to admit,
right...that I've...
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I've never been around
a bunch of guns, or violence.
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You know, not really.
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No political intrigue or...
helicopter crash, right?
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But my life, from my own point of view,
has been full of drama, right?
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And, so, I thought that
if I could write a book that...
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...that could capture what
it's like to really meet somebody
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I mean the most exciting thing
that's ever happened to me
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is to really meet somebody,
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make that connection,
and if I could...
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...make that valuable,
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you know, to capture that,
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that would be the attempt or...