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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  Creative, House, Mind

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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Miserable

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Ha salido una nueva biografía que dice que en el instituto Obama era un gran fumeta... Mitt Romney tuvo que responder a esto y dijo: 'Es espantoso que Obama pasara sus años de adolescencia haciendo el tonto y fumando hierba cuando debería haber estado inmovilizando a chicos gays y cortándoles el pelo'.

  Bill Maher

  Teenage, School, Kids

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• Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

  Mark Frauenfelder

  Writing, Creativity, Museums

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• A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Music, Musician, Written

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• I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

  David Cassidy

  People, Three, Awful

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• More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West.

  Robert C. Tucker

  Loyalty, Russia, Tangled

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• The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Foundation, Missionary, Records

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• Uno de los muchos méritos de esta admirable biografía de la madre de Proust es que invita a volver a la novela con una comprensión quizá más completa de la herencia, el entorno y la educación de Proust. . . . Este fascinante libro está lleno de interesantes observaciones sociales y culturales, de información sobre la vida judía francesa, la posición de los judíos en la sociedad y, por supuesto, el caso Dreyfus. Pero es esencialmente un estudio de una de las relaciones madre-hijo más notables y fructíferas. Como tal, es un libro que todo proustiano querrá leer.

  Allan Massie

  Mother, Book, Son

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• I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

  Emmylou Harris

  Want, My Own

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Men, Giving

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• Creo que la biografía puede ser más personal que la ficción y, desde luego, más expresiva.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Fiction, Expressive

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• Cuando se le preguntó qué quería decir con un milagro: Oh, cualquier cosa con una probabilidad inferior al 20%.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Miracle, Probability

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• Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

  Horace

  Hero, Night, Agamemnon

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• Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

  George Meredith

  History, Memoir

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• Tardamos mucho en descubrir lo ricos que somos. Nuestra historia, estamos seguros, es bastante insulsa: no tenemos nada que escribir, nada que deducir. Pero nuestros años más sabios todavía se remontan a los despreciados recuerdos de la infancia, y siempre estamos pescando algún artículo maravilloso de ese estanque; hasta que, poco a poco, empezamos a sospechar que la biografía de la única persona tonta que conocemos es, en realidad, nada menos que la paráfrasis en miniatura de los cien volúmenes de la Historia Universal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Historical, Research

  John Dominic Crossan (2010). “The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Las biografías y autobiografías son en conjunto más impresionantes que la ficción de las dos últimas décadas, pero los best sellers más extravagantes entre ellos son los que menos probabilidades tienen de resistir la prueba del tiempo.

  Harold Acton

  Two, Lasts, Fiction

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• Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

  Hermione Lee

  Jobs, Writing, Pieces

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• Otros escriben mi biografía, y la dejan reposar como ellos deciden hacerla. He vivido mi vida, bien y mal, siempre menos bien de lo que yo quería pero es, como es, y como ha sido; ¡tan poca cosa, para haber tenido tanto sobre ella!

  Clara Barton

  Writing, Ill, Wells

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• La química y los cristales me atraparon de por vida.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Science, Crystals, Chemistry

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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• It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

  Bernard Malamud

  Yelling, Done, Want

  W magazine, February 16, 1979.

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• There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  House, Yards, Reason

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.290, Macmillan

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