“I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.”
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)
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Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)
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Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927–2016) King of Thailand
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