Paul Murray Kendall Quotes

• On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Men, Shelter, Biographies

  Paul Murray Kendall (1965). “The Art of Biography”, New York, Norton

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• [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Secret, Boards, Agents

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