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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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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler…
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The style depends on the subject.
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been…
— Albert Einstein
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the…
— Mary Astell
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his…
— Chinua Achebe
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