"Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers,……" — Claire Tomalin

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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,… — Thomas Jefferson
• Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible-… — Unknown Author
• Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and… — 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… — Louise Brooks
• If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of… — Thomas Jefferson
• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full… — A. N. Wilson
• Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a… — Amity Shlaes
• Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist… — Bill Dedman
• Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin
• Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers. — Unknown Author

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