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Set 1: August 31
1.
“A well-written
life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."
2.
Newsweek 3. Your choice
Set 2: September 7
1.
“Just as there is
nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with the
autobiography."
2.
Time
3.
Your choice
Set 3: September 14
1.
“Autobiography is
an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
2.
Harper’s,
Biography 3. Your choice
Set 4: September 21
1.
“Biography is to
give a man some kind of shape after his death."
2.
Atlantic Monthly,
Biography 3. Your choice
Set 5: September 28
1.
“Biographies are
but the clothes and buttons of the man--the biography of the man himself
cannot be written."
2.
Biography 3. Your choice
Set 6: October 5
1.
“There is properly
no history; only biography."
2.
Newsweek 3. Your choice
Set 7: October 12
1.
“Biography is life
without theory."
2.
Time
or your choice of magazine
3.
Your choice
Set 8: October 19
1.
“When we quit
thinking about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly
heroic transformation of consciousness." 2. Harper’s, Biography, or your choice of magazine
3.
Your choice
Set 9: October 26
1.
“One of the many
distinctions between a celebrity and a hero is that one lives only for the
self, while the other acts to redeem society."
2.
Atlantic Monthly, Biography,
3.
Your choice
Set 10: November 2
1.
“The first draft
of anything is shit."
2.
Biography 3. Your choice
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