Almost any biographer if he respects facts can give us much more than another fact to add to our co

Almost any biographer if he respects facts can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact, the fertile fact, the fact that suggests and engenders.

Author: Virginia Woolf

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