Top Biographies Quotes
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Cynthia Ozick
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.
Harold Acton
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain 
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After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Cynthia Ozick
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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.
Harold Acton
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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
Antonia Fraser
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
Lynn Barber
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
Eberhard Weber
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