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Autobiography Quotes

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real. Jeanette Winterson
Philip Guedalla quote: "Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth..."
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe. Arthur Golden
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful."
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. Robert A. Heinlein
Philip Guedalla quote: "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth..."
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla
John Grigg quote: "Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less..."
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. John Grigg
Humphrey Carpenter quote: "Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. Humphrey Carpenter
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
John Berger quote: "Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an..."
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger
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
But not even Hitler can damage the fells'In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170. Beatrix Potter
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
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones. Jimmy Buffett
Paul Valery quote: "There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared,..."
There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography. Paul Valery
Obama: "I will stand with the Muslims..."Free Republic ^ | September 13, 2012 | me Posted on Thu Sep 13 2012 05:10:23 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) by Bon mots. In his ghost-written (by William Ayers) 'autobiography', "Dreams of My Father", Barack Hussein Obama said,"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction... Barack Obama

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