top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Biography quotes
"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
"Back then I had muscles on my muscles, I was tattooed and tanned, wore the tightest of jeans to accentuate my snakelike waist and the whitest of tight vests to accentuate my muscle packed torso. To top it all off, I had the nicest piece of eye-candy on my arm in the form of a stunning, long-legged, mini skirted blonde."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
bottom of page