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.

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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into...

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the...

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who...

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who...

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany...

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany...

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.