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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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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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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
H. G. Wells
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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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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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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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Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
Jan Phillips
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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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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
Kate Fleetwood
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Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
Lisel Mueller
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I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
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What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles Franklin
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With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.
Kate Zambreno
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An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
Doris Lessing
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Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
Zach Braff
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If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
Robert Pinsky