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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."

"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."

"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."

"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."

"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
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