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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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"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
"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."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
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