Michael Holroyd quotes

Michael Holroyd quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

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“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

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