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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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...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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.

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...

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.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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

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

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...

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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.

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...

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied...

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied...

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.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to...

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever...

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever...