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Brighton Beach Memoirs • 1984
She wants me to write quietly. If that was the only sentence I published in my memoirs, it would be a bestseller.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker jokes that being asked to write quietly is the best line in their memoirs. It would sell so well, they say, that it could carry the whole book. The humour lies in treating a small complaint as a bestseller.
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