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The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.
– Thornton Wilder

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  4. So – people a thousand years from now…This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying. – Thornton Wilder
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  6. But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse. – Thornton Wilder
  7. I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps – Thornton Wilder
  8. It is only dogs that never bite their masters. – Thornton Wilder
  9. Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs. – Thornton Wilder
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  14. Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically. – Lorrie Moore
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  17. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  18. I’m an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live. – Sarah Thornton
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  29. I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. – Anne Spollen
  30. Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience. – Suzy Davies
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  32. 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 Zafn
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  34. The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969] – Vladimir Nabokov
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  40. This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this. – Aaron Dries

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