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"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
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"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
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"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
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"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
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"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
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"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."
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"I'm an avid biography reader."
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"When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying- shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood."
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"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
Mortality
"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Love
"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
Spiritual
"I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."
Emotion
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Temptation
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
Satire
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
Art
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Love
"Most people are boring and stupid."
Society
"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
Art
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