The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Charles Baudelaire
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In his book, Life is So Good: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Middle-Aged Man, Robert Pirsig wrote, “The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. We all want to believe that we are as important as anyone else.”

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