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“The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.”

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Harold Acton

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Name: Harold Acton

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Jul 5, 1904

Date of Death: 1994

Profession: Historian

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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

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