“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

“History is the biography of the human race.”

“There is properly no history; only biography.”

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

“Experience by itself teaches nothing…Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.”

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”