"All the people I have written about remain……" — Claire Tomalin
"All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends."
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45 Quotes by Claire Tomalin
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of…
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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…
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be…
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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it…
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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by…
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th…
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker,…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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