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Biography

«The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.»
Author: Leon Edel | About: Biography, Life | Keywords: biographer, biographers, Inner House
«The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.»
«Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.»
«But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.»
Author: John Updike | About: Biography, Poetry | Keywords: biography, gag, gagged, Gags, phrases, verse
«Biography lends to death a new terror.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Biography, Death | Keywords: biography, lends
«There is properly no history; only biography»
«I can find my biography in every fable that I read»
«Boswell is the first of biographers»
«Biography is the only true history»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Biography, History | Keywords: biography