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"At first, we both miss a few sharp bursts of wild punches and then, BANG! I catch him with a full swing left hook and he goes down like a ferret down a hole after a rabbit. When that punch landed, I broke my hand, again, and simultaneously broke his jaw. I wonder if that is an entry into the Guinness Book of records?"
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
"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."
"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."
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
"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."
"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."
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