I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos … - Clive James

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Clive James

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates. . . Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

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