Top 5 Michael Holroyd Quotes
#1. [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.
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#2. Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
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#3. Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
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