Biographers Quote by Amity Shlaes Download Open image “The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.” — Amity Shlaes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographers Friendship Lucky Subjects
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“The history that one can create with a friend, a lifetime of history and shared experience, is a wonderful thing and shabbily sacrificed. And… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says:… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it a strange thing,” he asked Barton, “that in every period of social unrest men have the notion that they can pass a… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel… — Edwin Morris Copy Share Image
“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image