The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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What I like about Clive; Is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said; For being dead.
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Sir Humphry Davy; Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium; Of having discovered Sodium.
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Based on Keywords: chaps, mapsWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
Alan Vega
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake