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Biography Quotes
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."
"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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