Donna Leon
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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
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