“I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates… Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.”

On Peter Sellers, p. 127-9
Memoirs, North Face of Soho (2006)

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