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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
"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."
"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."
"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
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"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
"But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title."
"I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason."
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