The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar... I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you. (Romain Gary)

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar... I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Romain Gary

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