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Biography should be written by an acute enemy. |
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.- Mark Twain
I am not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you do not have to know anything about his life, even though I have just written a biography!
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I am going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
