“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.” — Argentina Palacios Copy Share Image
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“The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come… — Mary Cable Copy Share Image
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
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“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.” — Jan Wong Copy Share Image
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“The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall.… — Phillip A. Griffiths Copy Share Image
“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be… — Terry Lee Rioux Copy Share Image
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