“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
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TIME (18 July 1983)
“I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.”
Joking on joining the Army at age 15.
CNN March 8, 2008.
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