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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: Clare Boothe Luce Doris Lessing Abraham Lincoln Stephen Adly Guirgis Berenice Bejo Miles Franklin P. D. James Nikola Tesla Kate Zambreno Sandra Tsing Loh Deborah Kerr John Berger Zach Braff Arnold Schwarzenegger Lloyd Alexander Elizabeth Bowen Jean-Paul Sartre Robert Pinsky Celia Johnson Megan Martha White Pablo Picasso George Orwell Italo Calvino Tom Robbins Della Reese Janet Jackson Larry Wall Augusto Roa Bastos Hugh Hefner Elizabeth Taylor Jeanette Winterson Rollie Fingers Mary Roberts Rinehart
2.
[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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History is the autobiography of a madman.
Alexander Herzen

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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

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Daphne du Maurier

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

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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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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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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

23.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

24.
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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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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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

30.
I was raised to farm work.
Abraham Lincoln

31.
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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Often your face is your autobiography
Will Durant

34.
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

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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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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

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For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander

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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
Clare Boothe Luce

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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