Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

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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.

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.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

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

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

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

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.

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

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

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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...

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 lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an...

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...