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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: Doris Lessing Abraham Lincoln Clare Boothe Luce Hilaire Belloc Havelock Ellis Tom Stoppard Daphne du Maurier Jim Butcher Oscar Wilde Will Durant Kola Boof Mary J. Blige Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Frederick Buechner Robert A. Heinlein Courtney Thorne Smith Dorothy L. Sayers Linda Simon Margot Kidder Thomas Szasz Benjamin Franklin Joe Biden Karrine Steffans V. S. Naipaul Mary Antin Mark Twain H. G. Wells Brett Davern Dixie Lee Ray Mason Cooley George Bernard Shaw Sidney Poitier Agatha Christie
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

3.
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

6.
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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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

18.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

19.
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
H. L. Mencken

20.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
Elizabeth Taylor

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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

22.
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

25.
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

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

31.
Often your face is your autobiography
Will Durant

32.
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

35.
Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
Jan Phillips

36.
I was raised to farm work.
Abraham Lincoln

37.
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
Clare Boothe Luce

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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

40.
Every ist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

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

42.
All criticism is a form of autobiography
Oscar Wilde

43.
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
Jim Butcher

44.
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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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

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