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All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
— Gloria Steinem
What's your problem?""I don't have problems. I solve them. — John M. Cusick
We are afraid of the old age which we may never attain.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
— Claire Tomalin
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
— Virginia Woolf
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
— Milan Kundera
I have come here and will lead this passage to the farthest ends of the world "~ Gol D. Roger ~ — Eiichiro Oda
No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness
— James Victore
Boswell is the first of biographers.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
— Charles Grandison Finney
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
— Iris Origo
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
— Frederick Lenz
His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.
— Emily Dickinson
As I thoughtabout that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless. — Ellen Hopkins
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil ... not the cross.
— Greg Graffin
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
— Hermione Lee
I want the Congress that really is going to listen to the people. I really don't care what party it is anymore.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
— Joseph Addison
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
— Dan Barber
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
— Abraham Maslow
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.
— Mark Webber
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
— Gordon W. Allport
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.
— Kristin Halbrook
Pursue your goals with great passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita