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“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“There is properly no history; only biography”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

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“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
Louis L'Amour quotes (American writer, best-selling author, 1908-1988)
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“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
Rebecca West quotes (English Writer, 1892-1983)

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“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.”
Bill Maher quotes (American Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer. b.1956)
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“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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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 west by tedium.”
Philip Guedalla quotes (English Historian, 1889-1944)

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