Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE” — Sondra A. Torres Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Ever met a sympathetic doctor? No ways. They’re always impatient, glancing at the watch, calculating the price of your sickness against the… — Ian Martin Copy Share Image
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events -… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
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