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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,… — Thomas Jefferson
- Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection. — Unknown Author
- Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving… — Mark Bernstein
- Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier… — Louise Brooks
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson
- The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters,… — A. N. Wilson
- Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of… — Amity Shlaes
- Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. — Bill Dedman
- Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin
- Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin