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T. E. Lawrence1888–1935

I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

T. E. Lawrence on fame

Letter in T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters (1989) edited By Malcolm Brown, as quoted in “The Hero Our Century Deserved” by Paul Gray in TIME magazine (15 May 1989)

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