Biographers Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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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 the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
— Laura Furman
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Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably…
— Mark Bernstein
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive…
— Louise Brooks
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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 him,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements…
— A. N. Wilson
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their…
— Amity Shlaes
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Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
— Bill Dedman
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Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping…
— Claire Tomalin
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
— Claire Tomalin
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Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers.
— Walter Clemons
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Boswell is the first of biographers
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome temptations…
— Lyndon Baines Johnson
Who Wrote These Biographers Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Biographers Quotes as follows: