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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
Fiction
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
Life
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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