"On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken."

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I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

— Hilary Mantel