Biographies – Quotes

I was at my

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. G. H. Hardy

Only when one has

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh

The biographies are very

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired – and tried to emulate even – when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse. Eva Mendes

I’ve just finished reading

I’ve just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I’d finished I said to myself, ‘Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.’ (1911) Ernest Rutherford

[Freud’s] great strength, though

[Freud’s] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact… When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite … Read more

His mother’s favorite, he

His mother’s favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain. Ernest Jones

I am opposed to

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. … Every young English professor sees gold … Read more