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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

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Die Biografien und Autobiographien sind insgesamt beeindruckender als die Fiktion der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte, aber die verrückten Bestseller unter ihnen widerstehen den Test der Zeit am wenigsten.

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