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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. Abraham Lincoln

Truth Lie Out Posterity Only Generally Written Misleading Cheat Most False Commemorate Biographies

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. Abigail Spencer

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There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so. Andre Aciman

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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. Antonia Fraser

Long Emergence Between Historical Fully Gap Biographies

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. Barbra Streisand

Truth Correct Those Would Someday Like Errors Yes Interested Biographies

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. Blake Bailey

You Other Subject Fiction Literary Either Next Your Biographies

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. Christine Quinn

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Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them. Claire Tomalin

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses. Clay Clark

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After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. Cynthia Ozick

Become Our Faces Years After Certain Biographies Number

Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue. Darryl Pinckney

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. David Strathairn

You Man Those Photographs Voice Voice-Over Over Know Looked Pieces Him His Heard Lot Get Information Again Biographies

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra

Negative Side Some Western Biographies Portray

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women. Diane von Furstenberg

Me Women Inspire Enjoy All Women Am Stories Interested Biographies

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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I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. Emma Forrest

People Like Devour Natalie Wood Used Biographies Marilyn

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves. Eric Metaxas

Fly Known Shelves Off German Theologians Biographies

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