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Letter "B" » biographies
«After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.»
Author: Cynthia Ozick
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biographies
«The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.»
Author: Mary Cable
| About:
Biography
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all but, biographies, entered, readers, Second Life
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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balances, biographies, bits, bits and pieces, cultural, drag, go to bed, impedimenta, pairs, refer, single bed, social class, social classes
«The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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biographies, oblivion, spasm, spasms, transit
«The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.»
«Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written»
«Great geniuses have the shortest biographies»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Genius
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biographies, geniuses, shortest
«History is the essence of innumerable biographies»
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