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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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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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"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 am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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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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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
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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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"Biography lends to death a new terror."
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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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"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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"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."
Habit
"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."
Biography
"It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually."
Poverty
"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it."
Doubt
"When men think much, they can rarely decide."
Man
"When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness."
Health
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself."
Man
"High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart."
Heart
"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
Money
"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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