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Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you're as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody's else's sweet flesh.

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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Nancy Milford

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Nancy Milford

Nancy Milford

Born: March 26, 1938
Died: March 29, 2022 (aged 84)
Bio: Nancy Milford was an American biographer.

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