#autobiography

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. ↗

— David Antin

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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ↗

— Federico Fellini

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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. ↗

— John Berger

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I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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