Norman Mailer, author of ‘Marilyn: A Biography,’ reads an excerpt on Marilyn Monroe and her identity. (Photos by Roy Schatt.)
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TRANSCRIPT
- What an obsession is identity.
We search for it because the private sensation when we are in our own identity is that we feel sincere as we speak, we feel real, and this little phenomenon of good feeling conceals an existential mystery.
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