Famous quotes containing the words mortimer, adler and/or biography:
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)
“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)