#biographies

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ↗

— George Steiner

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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

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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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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#actually #autobiographical #autobiographies #based #i

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS, ↗

— John Green

#books #fiction #highlighter #reading-readers-writers #writing

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. ↗

— Julius Erving

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