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Walter Isaacson quote: "When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or..."

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

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It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys? Richard Ford
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There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. Angela Carter
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It was a day to be inside somewhere, cosseted and loved; by a warm fireside with the clatter of friendly cups and saucers, a sleepy cat licking his paws, a cyclamen in a pot on a windowsill putting forth new buds. Daphne du Maurier
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From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other. Daphne du Maurier
Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there. Jeanette Winterson
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. Xi Zhi
My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. Cheryl Strayed
She told me that every other step was just for me.'But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy. Sherman Alexie
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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. Augusten Burroughs
My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron compositionby the incomparable wandering voice of Phdre. When I was troubled in mind, you made for my bodycaught in its hangman's-knot of sinking lines, the glassy bowing and scraping of my will. . . . I have sat and listened to too manywords of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely with my life, not avoiding injury to others, not avoiding injury to myself--to ask... Robert Lowell
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. John Boehner
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. Franz Marc
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci
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A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel. Jerry Della Femina