"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities."

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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

— Salman Rushdie