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