"I don't think there's such a thing as……" — Maya Angelou
"I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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More Autobiographical Quotes
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one of 96 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a…
— Shirley Jackson
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
— Gloria Swanson
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really…
— Lana Del Rey
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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