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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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"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
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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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"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland."
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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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"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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"Biography lends to death a new terror."
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"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."
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"Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics."
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"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."
Man

"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."
Biography

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
Critics

"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
Life

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
Writing

"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."
Friendship

"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
Living

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."
Truth

"Will the reader turn the page?"
Will
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