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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Biography

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biography is a higher gossip.
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.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.


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