The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
Janet Malcolm, journalist, nonfiction book author, 1992
Janet Malcolm, journalist, nonfiction book author, 1992
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