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"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."
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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
Mind
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
Justice
"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
Virtue
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
Fear
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."
Chaos
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
Soul
"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."
Biography
"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."
Food
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
Death
"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
Dream
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"Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men."
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"Back then I had muscles on my muscles, I was tattooed and tanned, wore the tightest of jeans to accentuate my snakelike waist and the whitest of tight vests to accentuate my muscle packed torso. To top it all off, I had the nicest piece of eye-candy on my arm in the form of a stunning, long-legged, mini skirted blonde."
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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 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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"At first, we both miss a few sharp bursts of wild punches and then, BANG! I catch him with a full swing left hook and he goes down like a ferret down a hole after a rabbit. When that punch landed, I broke my hand, again, and simultaneously broke his jaw. I wonder if that is an entry into the Guinness Book of records?"
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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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 am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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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'm an avid biography reader."
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