'...as everyone knows who has ever heard a piece of gossip, we do not 'own' the facts of our lives at all.....Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money.....
Janet Malcolm
'The Silent Woman'
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