Look at the trees to know the forest "In fact, reading a biography is no different from reading any other kind of book: you can't accept everything in it at face value," says Bo Yang, remarking that it is nothing more than human nature if most writers of autobiographies or memoirs "play down the bad and emphasize the good" or tend to exaggerate somewhat.
「其實讀傳和讀任何書一樣，都不能盡信」，柏楊指出，一般寫自傳或回憶錄時，替自己「隱惡揚善」或略顯浮誇，都是人之常情。