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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Am Began Book Brilliant Change Daisy Finished Henry History James Just Miller Painful Square Washington I Am

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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Evil Good Good And Evil Interested Moral Natures People Very

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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Make Must Out People Poor Poor People Privileged Something Them

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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Always First First Love Love Mary Queen Something Something Special Special

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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Because Cold Day Know Sure Us Write You I Write

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Actually Arrival Book Books Childhood Concentration Family France Her How Influences Marie Some Start Surprising

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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Concern Major Prison Who Writers Writing

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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Books Deserts Even Get Hands Just People Police Tend

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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Cinema Exercises Going Like Make Myself Normally Swim Zest

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Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Lucky Number

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 27th, 1932

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