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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
Nikola Tesla
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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
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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
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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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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc
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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
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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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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
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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Benjamin Franklin
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To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx
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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
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard
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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
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All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
P. D. James
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the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
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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
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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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I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.
Frederick Buechner
48.
'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