"I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin……" — Cleveland Amory
"I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man."
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28 Quotes by Cleveland Amory
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience…
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What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
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...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand,…
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that…
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
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For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social…
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You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats…
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Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for…
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You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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More Autobiography Quotes
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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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