Biography Quotes
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Biography is the only true history
Thomas Carlyle
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The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.
Mary Cable
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Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.
Mark Feeney
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The biographer who writes the life of his subject`s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel
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"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people ...
David C. McCullough
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There is properly no history; only biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
