Quotes: biography
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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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.
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
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I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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