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A Stranger in the Mirror

by Sidney Sheldon · 1976

Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and has an ambition… more

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If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
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They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
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When you get there, there is no there….
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only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere.
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Then there was only the soft night wind and the timeless sea. And the stars above, where it had all been written.
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But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
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Fate will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.
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There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.
For talent was like a frail flower growing under solid rock. In the end, nothing could stop it from bursting through and blooming.

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Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and has an ambition even greater than Toby's. Together they rule Hollywood.

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First published
1976
Genre
Fiction
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3.67 (22k ratings)

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