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"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"Looking as sharp as Sweeney Todd's razor, Roger struck a formidable figure as he donned his smart clothes and tie. At times, he would often talk of the night of his career when he fought John Conteh. He took the defeat of that match very personally and would often punch out a drunk who scoffed at his midlands accent and his past pride and glory."
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"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
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"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland."
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"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."
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"Back then I had muscles on my muscles, I was tattooed and tanned, wore the tightest of jeans to accentuate my snakelike waist and the whitest of tight vests to accentuate my muscle packed torso. To top it all off, I had the nicest piece of eye-candy on my arm in the form of a stunning, long-legged, mini skirted blonde."
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"When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying- shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood."
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"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."
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"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
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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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"In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise."
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Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Wisdom
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
Age
"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
Intelligence
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."
Life
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
People
"A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions."
Customer
"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
Wisdom
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
Meeting
"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
Urbanization
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