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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
"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."
"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"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."
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
"When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh."
"If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes."
"I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed."
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