Memoirs Quotes
93 quotes by 91 authors
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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if…
— Isabel Allende
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
— William J. Clinton
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
— George Meredith
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I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
— Pauline Kael
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
— Margery Allingham
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A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up…
— Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
— Gloria Swanson
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Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called…
— John F. Kennedy
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Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
— Rupert Everett
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Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in…
— Fredrik Logevall
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People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.…
— Geoff Dyer
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
— Pierre Trudeau
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost…
— Eugene Ionesco
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I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E.…
— Erik Larson
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It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.
— Joachim von Ribbentrop
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