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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
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I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
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“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“ Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.” — James E. Crimmins Copy Share Image
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“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
“It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to escape from Bedlam,… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself,… — Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski 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
I don't care about popularity or on how many numbers a blogger can have or how long each word exist. Because it's… — Gien Caytuna Copy Share Image
“Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because if there was, I would have found… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
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The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
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