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  • Biography Quote #1

    Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

    Larry Hannant

  • Biography Quote #2

    Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.

    David Burns

  • Biography Quote #3

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

    James E. Crimmins

  • Biography Quote #4

    [Taken from a BBC documentary]

    Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.

    Tariq Ali

  • Biography Quote #5

    [As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

    Roman Payne

  • Biography Quote #6

    »Noch immer unentschieden. Franz«. Vier Worte, eine Autobiographie.

    Florian Illies

  • Biography Quote #7

    144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.

    Chris Crutcher

  • Biography Quote #8

    A Book for the Service Minded as well as the Government Bashers, on How to Be and How Not to Be.

    Mahesh Ubhayakar

  • Biography Quote #9

    A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

    Beth Nimmo

  • Biography Quote #10

    A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

    Georges F. Doriot

  • Biography Quote #11

    A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word law. It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.

    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  • Biography Quote #12

    A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And just as lives don't stay still, so life-writing can't be fixed and finalised. Our ideas are shifting about what can be said, our knowledge of human character is changing. The biographer has to pioneer, going 'ahead of the rest of us, like the miner's canary, testing the atmosphere, detecting falsity, unreality, and the presence of obsolete conventions'. So, 'There are some stories which have to be retold by each generation'. She is talking about the story of Shelley, but she could be talking about her own life-story. (Virginia Woolf, p. 11)

    Hermione Lee

  • Biography Quote #13

    After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first real writer he had ever met. He offered me the key to his office, Carver recalled in his preface to Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist (1983). I see that gift now as a turning point. In addition, Gardner gave his student close, line-by-line criticism and taught him a set of values that was not negotiable. Among these values were convictions that Carver held until his death. Like Gardner, whose On Moral Fiction (1978) decried the nihilism of postmodern formalism, Carver maintained that great literature is life-connected, life-affirming, and life-changing. In the best fiction, he wrote the central character, the hero or heroine, is also the ‘moved’ character, the one to whom something happens in the story that makes a difference. Something happens that changes the way that character looks at himself and hence the world. Through the 1960s and 1970s he steered wide of the metafictional funhouse erected by Barth, Barthelme and Company, concentrating instead on what he called those basics of old-fashioned storytelling: plot, character, and action. Like Gardner and Chekhov, Carver declared himself a humanist. Art is not self-expression, he insisted, it’s communication.

    William L. Stull

  • Biography Quote #14

    Always do what you're afraid to do-Robert F. Kennedy

    Evan Thomas

  • Biography Quote #15

    Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

    Susan Vreeland

  • Biography Quote #16

    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 cult of the personality, which is essentially problematic, and I think simplistically psychologizing which biographies are so wont to do is really problematic, and dangerous, especially when dealing with complicated women who just by being writers at a certain time and age were labelled as nonconformist, or worse, hysterical or ill or crazy, and I think branding these women as femme fatales is all so often done. And I know in a way I’m contributing to this by posting their bad-ass photos, except hopefully I am humanizing them and thinking of them as complicated selves and intellects AND CELEBRATING THEM AS WRITERS as opposed to straight-up objectifying. One particular review long ago in Poetry that really got my goat was when Brian Phillips used Gertrude Stein’s line about Djuna Barnes having nice ankles as an opener in a review of her poetry, and to my mind it was meant to be entirely dismissive, as of course, Stein was being as well. Stein was many important revolutionary things to literature, but a champion of her fellow women writers she was not. They published my letter, but then let the guy write a reply and scurry to the library and actually read Nightwood, one of my all-time, all-times, and Francis Bacon’s too, there’s another anecdote. And it’s burned in my brain his response, which was as dismissive and bourgeois as the review. I don’t remember the exact wordage, but he concluded by summing up that Djuna Barnes was a minor writer. Well, fuck a duck, as Henry Miller would say. And that is how the canon gets made.

    Kate Zambreno

  • Biography Quote #17

    Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

    Auliq Ice

  • Biography Quote #18

    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 baixo, pontinhos e tracinhos, dançavam, por assim dizer, livremente no espaço, enquanto as alemãs, impressas a duas colunas, eram magrinhas, hirtas, bem comportadas. O lado das letras hebraicas fazia pensar uma cabeça endiabrada, cheia de caracóis; o outro, das letras alemãs, na cabeça bem penteada duma senhora idosa, com monótona risca ao meio.

    Ilse Losa

  • Biography Quote #19

    As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers as 'objects of charity' for centuries, and was proud of the claim that it had never turned anyone away.

    Mike Jay

  • Biography Quote #20

    As the wildly favorable word of mouth spread, however, the box office receipts began to soar. First, fans of musicals came. Then the ever-growing cadre of Julie Andrews devotees. Finally, those longing for a happy ending—anywhere—began to turn out in droves. At which point the oddest thing of all happened: all these fans of the movie returned to see it again. And then once more. And then once again—until the phenomenon eventually resulted in a record-setting first release run of over four and a half years.

    Tom Santopietro

  • Biography Quote #21

    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

  • Biography Quote #22

    At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind.

    Mike Jay

  • Biography Quote #23

    At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93 million miles away and still as bright as it is in the sky some where unknown.

    J.T.Abraham

  • Biography Quote #24

    Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.

    Andrew Bonar

  • Biography Quote #25

    Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

    Aiden Shaw

  • Biography Quote #26

    Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless -- as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in the face of the disorderly actuality that is a life. The house also stirred my imagination as a metaphor for the problem of writing. Each person who sits down to write faces not a blank page but his own overfilled mind. The problem is to clear out most of what is in it . . . The goal is to make a space where a few ideas and images and feelings may be so arranged that a reader will want to linger awhile among them, rather than to flee, as I wanted to flee from Thomas's house.

    Janet Malcolm

  • Biography Quote #27

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Biography Quote #28

    Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.

    Janet Malcolm

  • Biography Quote #29

    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.… It
    was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical
    application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

    —Commencement address, Stanford University,
    June 12, 2005

    George Beahm

  • Biography Quote #30

    But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

    Paul Collins

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