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— Erica Jong"biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier."
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And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
— Samuel Johnson
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