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Success is not always a blaring trumpet; sometimes it is the gentle reassurance of Undeterred strength unfolding - much like nature quietly wages its critical camouflage ever so gracefully.
Author:
Alice Kent
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In the stillness of dawn, as the world takes its first listening breath, our thoughts ripple outwards, crafting a symphony only the heart knows.
Author:
Clara Feuersten
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Perfection is too rigid for the tale of survival; it's within our mismatched endeavors that resilient beauty finds its light.
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MAVEN fararraye
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In a silent symphony where root mingles with soil and sunlight dances through cloths of leaf, true understanding manifests; plant sentience reveals the depth of thought amidst stillness, paradox as virtu-professors in nature's concealment.
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Tennessee Hale
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Our heritage is not a line to be traced but a constellation of stories starring hidden strands of identity waiting to emerge.
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Lena Faulkner
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Truth constructed within the psyche defines who we are; unwrapping our edges may bloom hidden sorrows, yet tampering threads may stitch flawed gods.
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June Reynolds
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It is not just our memories that shape our identity; it is the altruism attached to the scars of recollection that enrichs the journey of what it means to be human.
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Elara Smithe
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Each stroke on the forgotten canvas traces echoes of lives uncharted, where parallel shades of genius linger just out of reach, whispering the strifes we refuse to remember.
Author:
Elara Finch
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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Walter Williams
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Oscar Wilde
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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Edmund White
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Author:
Edmund White
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Author:
Edmund White
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Author:
Rebecca West
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This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
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Lawrence Welk
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
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Conrad Veidt
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
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John Updike
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Mark Twain
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Anthony Trollope
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
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Lytton Strachey
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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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I'm an avid biography reader.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
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Mark Shields
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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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George Plimpton
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Author:
Martin Perl
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I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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Wrapped in memories yet lunging for possibility, it is in the contrasts of what was and can be that hope thrives; yon nostalgia is not a retreat, but footing in path forward.
Author:
Clarisse Mendoza
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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Life's blueprint intertwines the threads of ancestral whispers and celestial skies, manifesting a tapestry where every strand contributes to the unfolding poem of existence.
Author:
Lila Arden
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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John Irving
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In the echoless valleys, breath becomes independence; silent spaces whisper stories inscribed solely in glimpses shared with shadows.
Author:
Aiyana Clare
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As we explore the enigmatic pages written in our DNA, each kink and twist resembles not 'who we are' but a silent library of possibilities beckoning for the unwary reader's tenure.
Author:
Aria Velazquez
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Author:
Philip Guedalla
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Author:
Philip Guedalla
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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
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John Galbraith
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
Author:
Antonia Fraser
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I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.
Author:
Albert Finney
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I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
Author:
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Algorithmic compassion weighs the value of empathy against the precision of code; here lies the paradox where binary logic dances awkwardly amid human fragility.
Author:
Isla Verbrugge
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I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
Author:
Jonathan Coe
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Author:
William Channing
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Author:
Anita Brookner
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
Author:
Barbara Bradford
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Author:
Catherine Bowen
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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
Author:
Cilla Black
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Author:
Eric Bentley
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Author:
Edmund Bentley
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Author:
Arthur Balfour
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Author:
Richard Attenborough
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
Author:
John Arbuthnot
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
Author:
Aharon Appelfeld
