Marianne Faithfull: An Interview
Will Self, Independent on Sunday, 1999
THERE'S NOTHING much crasser in life than being told by someone, shortly after you've met them: "You really remind me of so-and-so..." It's bad enough if this aide-memoire is someone well known to your interlocutor, but far, far worse if it's someone famous.
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