Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Quote by Mark Feeney

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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is...

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is...

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

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...

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...

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...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

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...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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

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

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Boswell is the first of biographers

Boswell is the first of biographers

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...