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

Quote by Philip Guedalla

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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.

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...

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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...

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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...

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.

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.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

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...

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...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.