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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his…
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The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially…
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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her…
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School,…
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To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to…
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The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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If possible, be funny.
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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his…
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A…
— Aleister Crowley
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
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It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship…
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Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into…
— Georgette Heyer
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
— Thomas Huxley
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