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Definition of Biography |
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Biography
The written history of a person's life. Biographical writings in general. Related Definitions: Biographical, General, History, In, Life, Of, Person, The, Written |
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Biography Quotations
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. Mark Twain Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? John Kenneth Galbraith Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. Louis L'Amour No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Benjamin Disraeli I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. Kathy Griffin The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz |
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Biography Translations
biography in French is biographie biography in German is Lebensbeschreibung, Biographie biography in Swedish is biografi |