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Phyllis Rose
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“Perhaps that is what love is — the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.”
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“One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.”
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“... biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.”
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“... an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.”
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“... the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.”
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“But there is no neutrality. There is only greater or less awareness of one's bias.”
Phyllis Rose, U.S. writer, educator, critic
(1942)