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For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine’s story is, surprisingly, little known today.

—Clare Mulley

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Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

—Jerril Thomas

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Always live your life with your biography in mind.

—Marisha Pessl

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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history… It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate...

—Rachel Carson

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Asked about the fact that Apple’s iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, ‘It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

—Walter Isaacson

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Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by ’82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the space on the left of the entrance was to be the...

—Tony Wilson

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Detta är en sann historia- men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig.I verkligheten var allt mycket värre…

—Birgitta Andersson

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived.

—Carlos Ruiz

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What use is there for a biography of myself? I’m just a movie actor.

—Conrad Veidt

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There began to appear before my romantic eyes…a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

—Erik Larson

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I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule.” Clarence Birdseye

—Mark Kurlansky

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It’s the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

—Josef Albers

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… Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

—Nicholas Roe

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Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

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Flint, Michigan. Detroit as seen backwards through a telescope. The callus on the palm of the state shaped like a welder’s mitt. A town where 66.5 percent of the working citizenship are in some way,...

—Ben Hamper

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Kill the body and the head will die.

—Hunter S.

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Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures,

—Houghton Mifflin

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Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life.

—Jerril Thomas

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Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too...

—John Kerr

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Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take...

—Mike Jay

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The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

—Mike Parry

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The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this...

—Shireen Jeejeebhoy

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I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

—Bauvard

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To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

—Argentina Palacios

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Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

—Heinz Linge

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Apesar de eu não saber ler, distinguia bem entre as letras hebraicas, impressas no lado esquerdo do devocionário, e as alemãs, no lado direito. As hebraicas agradavam-me mais: vistosas, arredondadas, levavam, por cima e por...

—Ilse Losa

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Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

—Jerril Thomas

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Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

—Marjorie Watts

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Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as ‘the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, “the wheels of the world”, are...

—John Garth

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Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that...

—Walter Isaacson

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Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low Alvar Aalto stools for the alcove and coctail bar seating. Also,...

—Tony Wilson

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I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come… -Susanna Wesley

—Arnold A. Dallimore

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It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill’s sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

—Christopher Hitchens

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Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. … According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author’s grandparents educational background.]

—James Vescovi

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The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

—Harry W.

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

—Jo Ann

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The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that...

—Mike Jay

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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level...

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The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in...

—Zulfikar Ali

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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the...

—Anne Brontë

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Broad-Based Education:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.… Itwas beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a...

—George Beahm

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Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I’ll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will...

—David Wilkerson

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When extremists come together extreme things happen.

—Jerril Thomas

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And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially when they pertain to women writers, because I think it’s really about the...

—Kate Zambreno

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The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.

—Mike Jay

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I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around the yard, sweeping leaves off the slate paths to my heart’s...

—Sissy Spacek

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You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.””She’s not clever. I did them,” yelled Frieda.”You’ll get five years.””She did them.”From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

—Robyn Quaker

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The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.

—André Frossard

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Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.

—Bentham

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A thoughtful and enlightening contribution to the literature on one of California’s ‘most idiosyncratic politicians,’ this book perceptively analyzes the tensions between the spiritual and the pragmatic that have shaped Jerry Brown’s approach to, and...

—Chuck McFadden

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