Quotes about Biography

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One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel — M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that th — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape an — Chris Offutt, My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what languag — Malala Yousafzai
Narrative writing represents a personal attempt to quantify and understand the psychological singularities behind the au — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A bookshelf is a biography written by others. — Kat Lehmann
Every old man that dies is a library that burns. — Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist
The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior ligh — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted — Auliq Ice
In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. — Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absol — Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it"."No,no. Come on, let's have — Jay Cowan
An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships o — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the — Jürgen Habermas
The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of see — Shireen Jeejeebhoy, Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story
Periodic Paralysis is not our friend — Susan Q. Knittle-Hunter, Living with Periodic Paralysis: The Mystery Unraveled
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it. — Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles