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One of the new terrors of death.
A shilling life will give you all the facts:
How Father beat him, how he ran away,
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.
Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man's life may be best written ...
Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture ...
Bias, point of view, fury--are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours ...
... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse t ...
... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from ...
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the ...
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