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• An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories

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• The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Spiritual, Memories, Book

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• After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

  Taryn Manning

  Reading, Fighting, Artist

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• If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mean, Drug, Modern

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don’t feel pressure. I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Sleep, Sunday, July

  "I Think Therefore I Play". Book by Andrea Pirlo and Alessandro Alciato, April 15, 2014.

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• American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

  Harvey Pekar

  Ongoing, Never Quit, Splendor

  Interview with Shawna Ervin-Gore, www.darkhorse.com.

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

  Will Rogers

  Memories, Done, Good Things

  Will Rogers (1982). “More letters of a self-made diplomat”, Oklahoma State University Press

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• In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Blood, Doe, Dry

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• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Missing, Lasts

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 29

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• The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

  Phyllis Rose

  Women, Literature, Life Is

  Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

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• What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

  Randy Alcorn

  Life Is, Resources, This Life

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.197, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.

  Jay Leno

  Girlfriend, Real, President

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• The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Childhood, Made, Novel

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• Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Honest, Truthful

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

  Diane Keaton

  Mother, Writing, Should

  "Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Stories, Scripts, Truth Is

  Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January, 2008.

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• There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

  Fay Weldon

  Real, Self, Biographies

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1365, Head of Zeus

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• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Book, Pages

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• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

  Nikola Tesla

  Passion, League, Goal

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Stories, Story Of My Life

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• Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

  Walter Benjamin

  Years, Here I Am, Space

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Self, Self Indulgent

  Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”

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• Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

  George Orwell

  Disgraceful, Trusted

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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