In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I espouse, the standards I myself have set. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questioning. But I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. I felt called to write about certain values, such as integrity and commitment, faith and forgiveness, about the virtues of simplicity, about the difference between "amusing ourselves to death" and finding meaningful pleasures-even joy. What I absorbed through my early experiences in a certain time and place, and what I absorbed, certainly without knowing it, through the blood of my parents, and through the blood of their parents before them. What I've learned by living more than seventy years of it. More recently I decided that I wanted to write a book about life. Many years ago I wrote a book about my life, which was, necessarily, in large part a book about my life in Hollywood.
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