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«Biography is one of the new terrors of death.»
«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.»
«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
«All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: biography
«A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.»
«Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.»
«Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written»
«Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography»
«Biography lends to death a new terror.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Biography, Death | Keywords: biography, lends
«Biography is the only true history»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Biography, History | Keywords: biography

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