“All memoir is prostitution.”

—  Julian Assange

After reading the first draft of a biography about himself, March 2011, as quoted in [Matt, Taibbi, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-julian-assange-case-wikileaks-758883/, Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case, Rolling Stone, November 23, 2018]

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