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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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 will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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.

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 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...

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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, 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.

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

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.