Quote by Arthur Balfour
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. - Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. – W. H. Auden

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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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