Adventures of a Biographer
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“Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.”
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“What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?”
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“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”
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“Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.”
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“Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.”
“Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.”