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• Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  Claire Messud

  Genius

  Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.288, Pan Macmillan

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• This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

  Lawrence Welk

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• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Balloons, Determined

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

  Arthur Balfour

  Enemy, Should, My Biography

  In Observer 30 Jan. 1927

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• History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Essence, History, Legacy

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "On History" (1838) See Thomas Carlyle 12

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• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Men, Judas

  "The Butterfly's Boswell" (1887)

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• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Drunk

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)

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• There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychology, Autobiography

  The Second Sin

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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.

  Bill Mumy

  Writing, Years, Albums

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• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  Eric Bentley

  Maps, Geography, Chaps

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• I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

  Ann Wroe

  Thinking, Soul, Way

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• Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Powerful, Essence, Sacred Feminine

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Reading, Letters, Hunger

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Wisdom, Next

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• Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

  Antonio Damasio

  People, Interesting, Political

  Interviewwith David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.

  Oliver Sacks

  Real, Unique, Men

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• Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

  Harold Lasswell

  Science, Political, Taxidermy

  Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Appetite, Immense

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• Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Aspect

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• All of our theology must eventually become biography.

  Tim Hansel

  Theology

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• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Fiction, Literature

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson" edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Subjects, Subordinates

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confused, Confusion, Boat

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• History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stout, Earnest, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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