Philip Guedalla Quotes

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• 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…
• The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
• Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
• The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender
• Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
• Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
• Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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