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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
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"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
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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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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland."
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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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"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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"Biography lends to death a new terror."
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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
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"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
Man

"Manners are love in a cool climate."
Love

"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
Money

"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
Being

"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
Change

"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
People

"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
Success

"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
Intelligence

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
Man
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