Reading Biographies Quotes

• No leas historia: nada más que biografía, porque eso es vida sin teoría.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Vida inspiradora, Historia, Biografías

  Contarini Fleming pt. 1, cap. 23 (1832) Véase RalphWaldo Emerson 11

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• I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

  Marie Dressler

  Reading, People, World

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Perro, Reyes, Escuela

  "Deja un cubierto para Ann". Entrevista con Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. 9 de mayo de 2013.

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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Biographies

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Crecí leyendo biografías sobre grupos, y todo eso me encanta. Lo que pasa con las biografías, es un viejo tópico pero es cierto, es que muchas veces son más sobre el autor que sobre el grupo.

  Stevie Jackson

  Reading, Groups, Biographies

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Reading, Letters, Biographies

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

  Nancy Horan

  Reading, Use, Biographies

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• I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Crazy, Reading

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Reading, Hero

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• Me encanta leer diferentes libros sobre temas completamente distintos al mismo tiempo. No puedo centrarme en uno solo. Leo unas páginas de literatura, luego salto a filosofía y al mismo tiempo estoy leyendo biografías de Mahler.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Filosofía, Libro, Lectura

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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