Autobiography Quotes - Page 7

• I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

  Beth Ditto

  Paris, Stories, Want

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• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Couple, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

  Tom Robbins

  Ego, Indulgence

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• Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

  Ellery Sedgwick

  Two, Legacy, Chapters

  "The Happy Profession". Book by Ellery Sedgwick, ch. 1, 1948.

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Writing, Years

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• Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

  Clare Boothe Luce

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• It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

  John Dos Passos

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1969). “One man's initiation: 1917: a novel”

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• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Self, Honest

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• Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Lying, Self, Data

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• Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

  Robert Breault

  Mom, Mother, Writing

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• On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Men, Shelter, Biographies

  Paul Murray Kendall (1965). “The Art of Biography”, New York, Norton

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• Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

  Dick Francis

  Writing, Self, Tasks

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• Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Writing, Order

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to keep intact - the affection for life.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Taken, Thinking

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Evil, Sin

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• Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Naked, Narrative

  Edward Gibbon (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2

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• It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Historical, Research

  John Dominic Crossan (2010). “The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

  Dan Rather

  Book, Thinking, Presidential

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• Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

  Robert Silverberg

  Data, Names, Two

  "Hell's Cartographers (Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal)". Book edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison, 1975.

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• I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Volunteer, Captains, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humility, Humble, Born

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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

  Writing, Facts, Subjects

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• When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

  Elias Canetti

  Writing, Pages, Should

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• People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
  A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.

  James Boswell

  Heart, Kids, Men

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Lakes, Effort

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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