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