#biographies

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.


Eleanor Roosevelt


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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.


Antonia Fraser


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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.


Al Sharpton


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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.


Barbra Streisand


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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.


Lynn Barber


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...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.


Alan Bennett


#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

Fact is much more fascinating than fiction.


Deana J. Driver


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Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.


Deana J. Driver


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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.


Mark Twain


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I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.


Leslie Caron


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