Quotes with biographies

  • Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  • My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

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  • Cynthia Ozick After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbra Streisand I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud It was all those biographies in me yelling, We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bill Paxton My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • George Steiner The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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