Best quotes by Kathryn Harrison on Me

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• ‟ I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.

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• ‟ It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

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• ‟ I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

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• ‟ When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

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• ‟ Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

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• ‟ Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.

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• ‟ Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

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