We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
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Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
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After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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