Reading Biographies Quotes

• Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational Life, History, Biographies

  Contarini Fleming pt. 1, ch. 23 (1832) See RalphWaldo Emerson 11

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• I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

  Marie Dressler

  Reading, People, World

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Dog, Kings, School

  "Leave a Place Setting for Ann". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Biographies

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

  Stevie Jackson

  Reading, Groups, Biographies

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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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, Biographies

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

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

  Nancy Horan

  Reading, Use, Biographies

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• I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Crazy, Reading

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Reading, Hero

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• I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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