Humphrey Carpenter Quotes

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. - Humphrey Carpenter quote.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
— Humphrey Carpenter The New York Times Book Review

I could not pin him down to a conventional biographical text like a dead insect. - Humphrey Carpenter quote.

I could not pin him down to a conventional biographical text like a dead insect.
— Humphrey Carpenter Sunday Telegraph

Biographies are likely to be either acts of worship or acts of destruction. And the best ones have elements of both. - Humphrey Carpenter quote.

Biographies are likely to be either acts of worship or acts of destruction. And the best ones have elements of both.
— Humphrey Carpenter The Art of Literary Biography

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