Best Memoirs Quotes
93 Memoirs quotes by 89 unique authors
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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
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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
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand…
— Constance Hale
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point…
— Constance Hale
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I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
— Jessica Brown Findlay
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The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort…
— Arthur Koestler
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth…
— Anne Lamott
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Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so…
— Michelle Yeoh
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If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired…
— Judith Barrington
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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind…
— Tao Lin
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives…
— Harlan Ellison
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
— Calvin Trillin
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,…
— Mary McCarthy
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I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
— Jen Lancaster
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People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing…
— Mark Leyner
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
— Manuel Puig
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
— Sally Ride
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was…
— Karrine Steffans
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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since…
— Anthony Powell
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Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
— Jonathan Lynn
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I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
— Brett Davern
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that…
— Barry Eichengreen
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