"I am not sure that it would not have been wiser, from my standpoint, to have permitted those who enjoy my writings to cherish any illusions they may have had about my personal appearance. 'The probability is that they had pictured me as a most magnificent creature and that even the movie came with a shock' of disillusionment.
"Undoubtedly' discretion dictates, that any writer who desires to retain such veneration as his readers may feel for him should keep his Personal appearance a deadly secret.
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