Famous Biography Quotes - Famous Quotes about Biographies
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
- Philip Guedalla
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
- Phillip Roth
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