"Biography is one of the new terrors of death."

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"When my journal appears, many statues must come down."

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"Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

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"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."

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"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."

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"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense."

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"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."

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"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."

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"If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear."

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"No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself."

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