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225 Autobiography quotes by 196 unique authors

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I… — George Seaton
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and… — Helen Keller
The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person, — John O'Donohue
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. — Philip Guedalla
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography. — Randy Alcorn
Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography. — Zach Braff
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. — David Antin
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to… — Stephen Metcalf
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. — Humphrey Carpenter
All autobiography is self-indulgent. — Daphne du Maurier
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn
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 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
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in… — Neville Cardus
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises… — Eric Hoffer
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.… — Raymond Chandler
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a… — Virginia Woolf
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.… — Evelyn Waugh
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Benjamin Franklin
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the… — Walter Benjamin
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell… — Cilla Black
If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography. — Sam Ewing
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. — Raymond Carver
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would… — Unknown Author

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