Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. (Philip Guedalla)

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

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