“Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Reply to T. E. Lawrence who complained of press attention.
Quoted by Harry Kessler in his diary, 14 November 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=y_BJt918BHoC
1920s

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