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biographies anecdotes volume
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. William Ellery Channing
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot
biographies maps geography
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Eric Bentley
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. Kate Fleetwood
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
biographies theology
Our theology must become biography. Tim Hansel
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Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. Mick Jagger
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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation. Dave Foley
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Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them. Mark Olson
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Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books. Lauren Weisberger
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I'm no good at anecdotes. Kelly Macdonald
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A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Michael Ondaatje
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I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,
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I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. Bea Arthur
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One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz. Nicholas Kristof
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. William Penn
volume
It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.
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With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.