Fawn M. Brodie Quotes

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

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There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

Fawn M. Brodie

Fawn M. Brodie

Fawn M. Brodie

Born: September 15, 1915

Died: January 10, 1981 (aged 65)

Bio: Fawn McKay Brodie was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA.

Known for:

No Man Knows My History (1945)
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)
The Devil Drives (1967)
Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (1981)
Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959)

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