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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
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Richard Holmes
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Thomas Carlyle
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13 votes
An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Barbara G. Harris
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Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
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Jones
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Biography is a higher gossip.
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Robert Winder
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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Louis Fischer
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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John Arbuthnot
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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Arthur James Balfour
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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Hilaire Belloc
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30 votes
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
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George Meredith
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Fawn M. Brodie
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The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
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Norman Sherry
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9 votes
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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George Steiner
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12 votes
The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
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T. H. Gibblings
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18 votes
There is properly no history; only biography.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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15 votes
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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55 votes