Autobiography Quotes
225 quotes by 200 authors
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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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…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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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,…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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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…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
— Nikola Tesla
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the…
— Linda Grant
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
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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
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply…
— Oscar Wilde
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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…
— Dick Francis
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
— Bernard Berenson
Who Wrote These Autobiography Quotes
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