"I talk all about myself, and this is selfishness and egotism. Granted. But how help it? I am writing to you; I know little about you, but something about myself so I write about myself, -- at least, to you. Don't trouble yourself, though, about writing; and don't trouble yourself about visiting; and when you do visit, don't trouble yourself about talking. I will do all the writing and visiting and talking myself."
--from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne from Herman Melville
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I don't know whether that makes Melville a shameless narcissist or just a brutally honest one.
sounds like something I'd say....we all know I'm just pure ego...see...I've even made THIS about me...I'm so vain...I know that song was about me...
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