Michael Holroyd Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.”
-- Michael Holroyd

#Biographies #Embarrassment #Novel
“Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.”
-- Michael Holroyd

#Biographies #Thousand #Ten
“I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.”
-- Michael Holroyd

#Thinking #Records #May

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