Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.