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Autobiography Quotes

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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
Nikola Tesla

Authors on Autobiography Quotes: Abraham Lincoln Clare Boothe Luce Doris Lessing Oscar Wilde Will Durant Kola Boof Daphne du Maurier Jim Butcher Frederick Buechner Robert A. Heinlein Courtney Thorne Smith Mary J. Blige Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Margot Kidder Thomas Szasz Dorothy L. Sayers Linda Simon Karrine Steffans V. S. Naipaul Benjamin Franklin Joe Biden Mark Twain H. G. Wells Brett Davern Mary Antin George Bernard Shaw Sidney Poitier Dixie Lee Ray Mason Cooley Kate Fleetwood T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Agatha Christie John McEnroe
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[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.
Deborah Kerr

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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos

4.
History is the autobiography of a madman.
Alexander Herzen

5.
Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
Pedro Almodovar

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I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
John McEnroe

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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
George Orwell

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger

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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Thomas Szasz

10.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Daphne du Maurier

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
H. G. Wells

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I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
Della Reese

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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
Italo Calvino

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there is no truly honest autobiography.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

17.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
Elizabeth Taylor

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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
H. L. Mencken

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I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
Celia Johnson

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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
Megan Martha White

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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Benjamin Franklin

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After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.
Hugh Hefner

24.
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx

25.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc

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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
Pablo Picasso

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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul

28.
All autobiography is fiction.
Sandra Tsing Loh

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There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
Jeanette Winterson

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Often your face is your autobiography
Will Durant

31.
Nature did not make me willowy.
Dixie Lee Ray

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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
Elizabeth Bowen

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
George Bernard Shaw

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Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
Jan Phillips

35.
I was raised to farm work.
Abraham Lincoln

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All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
Clare Boothe Luce

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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
Agatha Christie

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All criticism is a form of autobiography
Oscar Wilde

40.
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
Jim Butcher

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My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
Kola Boof

42.
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.
Courtney Thorne Smith

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Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
Robert A. Heinlein

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I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.
Frederick Buechner

45.
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
Mary J. Blige

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There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.
Margot Kidder

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biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
Linda Simon

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My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
Karrine Steffans

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Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.
Joe Biden

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
Mark Twain