1.
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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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
 
15.
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
Della Reese
 
16.
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
 
20.
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx
 
21.
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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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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I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
 
40.
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles Franklin
 
41.
An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
Doris Lessing
 
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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
 
43.
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
44.
Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
Zach Braff
 
45.
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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Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
Robert Pinsky
 
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Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
Doris Lessing
 
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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
Tom Robbins