"Biography is history seen through the prism of a person."

-- Louis Fischer

#Biographies Quotes #Prisms Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”
“Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.”
“He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.”
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

Source : Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.”

Source : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
“Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.”
“Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.”
“It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.”

Source : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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