Quotes by autobiography
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Source: The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
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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 dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
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In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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