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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. -- George Orwell
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. -- John Berger
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. -- Philip Guedalla
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. -- Steven Wright
Every artist writes his own autobiography. -- Havelock Ellis
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. -- Thomas Szasz
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. -- Samuel Goldwyn
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. -- Oscar Wilde
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. -- W. H. Auden
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. -- Boris Becker
Autobiography is mostly alibiography. -- Clare Boothe Luce
All autobiography is self-indulgent. -- Daphne du Maurier
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. -- Robert Pinsky
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying -- Humphrey Carpenter
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. -- Humphrey Carpenter
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. -- Henry James
Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible -- Lord Altrincham
Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. -- Benjamin Franklin
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. -- Quentin Crisp
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. -- Nikola Tesla
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. -- Henry A. Kissinger
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. -- Robert Penn Warren
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. -- Kathy Griffin
I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. -- Abraham Lincoln
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. -- Tom Butler-Bowdon
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. -- Junot Diaz
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world -- H. L. Mencken
One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher -- J.E.B. Spredemann
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. -- Clarence Darrow
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. -- Oscar Wilde
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography. -- Siddharth Katragadda
UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Even wondered about the difference?Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness. -- Raul Ramos y Sanchez
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. -- Nikola Tesla
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. -- Philip Roth
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. -- Philip Roth
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion. -- George Harrison
Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't. -- Manning Marable
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did. -- Martin Filler
In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view. -- Robert S Ellwood
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' -- Maya Angelou
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
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes." -- Robert Wise
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak. -- Evelyn Waugh
All autobiography is self-indulgent -- Daphne du Maurier
Every artist writes his own autobiography -- Havelock Ellis
My autobiography was simply the story of my life. -- Sidney Poitier
I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. -- John McEnroe
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. -- Federico Fellini
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead -- Samuel Goldwyn
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. -- June Foray
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?' -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. -- Beth Ditto
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. -- Stephen Hawking
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists -- Donal Henahan
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. -- V. S. Naipaul
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding it is the deepest part of autobiography -- Robert Penn Warren
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world -- H. L. Mencken
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! -- Kajol
People once said they were in psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies -- R. Z. Sheppard
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography. -- Ann Coulter
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self. -- Iain Sinclair
Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life. -- Salman Rushdie
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
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats -- George Orwell
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. -- Jim Hodges
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. -- Jenni Rivera
All autobiography is fiction. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Often your face is your autobiography -- Will Durant
Every ist writes his own autobiography. -- Havelock Ellis
there is no truly honest autobiography. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. -- Larry Wall
Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography . -- Lloyd Alexander
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism. -- Pedro Almodovar
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. -- Mary Antin
History is the autobiography of a madman. -- Alexander Herzen
All criticism is a form of autobiography -- Oscar Wilde
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. -- Mary J. Blige
The way people move is their autobiography in motion. -- Gerry Spence
The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. -- Mason Cooley
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. -- Tom Robbins
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information. -- Diana Ross
Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography. -- Joe Biden
An interim report - that is what an autobiography is. -- Doris Lessing
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. -- Raymond Carver
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography. -- Della Reese
I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening. -- Frederick Buechner
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous. -- Tom Stoppard
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. -- Bernard Berenson
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies -- Jeanette Winterson
Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are. -- Jan Phillips
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. -- P. D. James
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. -- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography. -- Randy Alcorn
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. -- Richard Simmons
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. -- David Brooks
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? -- Jill Ker Conway
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. -- Benjamin Franklin
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography -- Pablo Picasso
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life. -- Tom Regan
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. -- Clifton Fadiman
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. -- Pamela Stephenson
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. -- Marcel Duchamp
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. -- Kate Zambreno
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. -- H. G. Wells
If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography. -- Sam Ewing
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. -- Robert Breault
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. -- Nadine Gordimer
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. -- Claud Cockburn
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. -- Joseph Barbera
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. -- Arthur Smith

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