Oscar Hijuelos - I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoir...

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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

Oscar Hijuelos

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Ich unterrichte bei Duke, und ich habe Studenten, die alle zwanzig sind und Memoiren schreiben wollen, und Sie wissen, es ist alles ziemlich interessantes Zeug, aber vielen fehlt es an Gravitas, wissen Sie.

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