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Tag Name "Biography" (179)

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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
Aaron Allston
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A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Joyce Carol Oates
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Richard Attenborough
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton
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I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.
Russell Freedman
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
Charles Babbage
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20 I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
Peter Ackroyd
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I'm an avid biography reader.
Brent Spiner
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I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.
Iris Origo
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
Jane Campion
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A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
Osip Mandelstam
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All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
Norman Spinrad
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Philip Guedalla
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I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.
Sam Abell
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Eric Bentley
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I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography. You end up on a really special, universal, shared terrain in those experiences. I think it's available to absolutely every single thing made of flesh and blood.
How to Dress Well
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Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't even know how many over the years. And it's sort of a cursed project, for lots of reasons. There's probably some pile somewhere of all these weird attempts, all these portraitures that can't get made.
Tamara Jenkins
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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.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
William James
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Erica Jong
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Our theology must become biography.
Tim Hansel
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There is no psychology there is only biography and autobiography.
Thomas Szasz
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