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Famous Quotes By Michael Holroyd

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[On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace. — 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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Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled. — Michael Holroyd

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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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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