books

Trouble and rancour are essential if the book is to be worth reading, or buying. Political diarists base entire careers on that principle: a discreet diarist is as viable as a chaste whore.

— Simon Barnes, "You Can Bet on Truth Limping in Last in a Sporting Biography," Times (London), 15 July 2000, at 20.

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