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| If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me God'') to GCMG (''God Calls Me God''). | Anthony Sampson | |
| Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. | Augusto Roa Bastos | 1917-, Paraguayan Novelist |
| 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 | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| An AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a preemptive strike against biographers. | Barbara G. Harris | |
| That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. | Dorothy Parker | 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer |
| 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 | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher |
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| Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. | Ellery Sedgwick | |
| Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an AUTOBIOGRAPHY. | Evelyn Waugh | 1903-1966, British Novelist |
| A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful AUTOBIOGRAPHY is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. | Fawn M. Brodie | 1915-1981, American Biographer |
| 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 | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Every artist writes his own AUTOBIOGRAPHY. | Havelock Ellis | 1859-1939, British Psychologist |
| I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. | Henry Kissinger | 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State |
| Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with AUTOBIOGRAPHY. | Hilaire Belloc | 1870-1953, British Author |
| 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 | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. | John Berger | 1926-, British Actor, Critic |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. | John Grigg | |
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| What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| 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 | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| A man's face is his AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A woman's face is her work of fiction. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 1933-, American Novelist |
| 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 | 1933-, American Novelist |
| An AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. | Quentin Crisp | 1908-, British Author |
| For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of AUTOBIOGRAPHY. | Robert Penn Warren | 1905-1989, American Writer, Poet |
| Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. | Salvador Dali | 1904-1989, Spanish Painter |
| I don't think anybody should write his AUTOBIOGRAPHY until after he's dead. | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM |
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| The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. | Sister Elizabeth Kenny | |
| There is no psychology; there is only biography and AUTOBIOGRAPHY. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
| Every AUTOBIOGRAPHY is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| 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 | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
