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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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