Quote by Hilaire Belloc
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the into

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

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. – Hilaire Belloc

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldnt be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. – Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Legacy

A mans memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. – Fawn M. Brodie

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Legacy

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

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Legacy

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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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I dont think Im capable of that. – Chris Cooper

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The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Imagination

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. – Samuel Johnson, 1751

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Writing