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People are complicated,” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?” ― Frederick Weisel, Teller4

HISTORICAL FIGURES “You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." ― David McCullough, John Adams

LITERARY FIGURES “ The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.” Mary Cable

MORE AUTHORS Biography is the only true history” Thomas Carlyle

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.” Mark Feeney

SPORTS “I can find my biography in every fable that I read” Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE ARTS "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison

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