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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Biography

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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As a kid all I wanted to read were biographies. I thought they were the truth. There was some kid's biography series in our school library. I tried to find it online, but haven't yet.

Anyway, I remember being devastated when I got older and realized that biography is not truth. In fact, biography is probably one of the things furthest from the truth. Well, biography and history. Of course my undergraduate degree is in history. Maybe that's because I like storytelling and lying so much.

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