Biographies Quotes
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
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I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
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Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
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Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
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There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
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John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
