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• Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

  James McBride

  Bills, Stories, Clinton

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Drama, Party

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• Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

  Nigel Hamilton

  Sports, Strong, Hero

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• Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

  David Levering Lewis

  Voice, Movement, Moral

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• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Six, Literature

  Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

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• The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.

  Gary Chapman

  Reality, Years, People

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

  Will Rogers

  Country, Home, Break

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Men, He Man

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  Plutarch

  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Childhood, Prelude, Composer

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• A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Painting, Inseparable

  1952 'TheAmerican Action Painters', in Art News, no.51, Dec.

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• All Philosophy is Biography

  Peter J. Carroll

  Philosophy

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.96, Weiser Books

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• Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Men, Beaten, Written

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• For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.

  Dave Barry

  War, Reading, Hawaii

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

  Michael Holroyd

  Embarrassment, Novel, Offspring

  2002 Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography & Autobiography, 'The Case against Biography'.

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• The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

  C. Wright Mills

  Two, Imagination, Promise

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.19

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• I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

  Stevie Jackson

  Reading, Groups, Grew Up

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

  Alvin Ailey

  Book, Texas, Creating

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• The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.

  Max Planck

  Science, Black, Density

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• Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.

  Burton Silverman

  Personality, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Our theology must become biography.

  Tim Hansel

  Theology

  Tim Hansel (1989). “Holy Sweat”, W Publishing Group

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• When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.

  Criss Jami

  Unique, Men, People

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• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Strong, Drama, Adventure

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Proud, Way

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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