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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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"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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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
God
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
History
"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."
Biography
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
Writing
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
Heaven
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
Athens
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
Language
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
Cities
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