| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Det finns ingen riktig historia, endast biografi. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. | Mark Feeney |
| 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. | Mary Cable |
| Boswell is the first of biographers | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| Biography lends to death a new terror. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can be. | Philip Guedalla (1889-1944) |
| Biography is the only true history | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| I can find my biography in every fable that I read | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. | John Updike (1932-) |
| Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety. | Leon Edel (1907-) |
| The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. | Leon Edel (1907-) |
| From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history of the theater, not only in the United States but all over Europe as well. We used to get arrested every other week--that is, the old man would get arrested. The first crack out of the box here in New York state, the Keith office raised my age two years, because the original law said that no child under 5 could even look at the audience, let alone do anything. So they said I was 7. And the law read that a child can't do acrobatics, can't walk a wire, can't juggle--a lot of those things--but there was nothing said in the law that you can't kick him in the face or throw him through a piece of scenery. On that technicality, we were allowed to work, although we'd get called into court every other week, see. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| There is properly no history; only biography | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |