#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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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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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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My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. ↗

— Celia Johnson

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All autobiography is self-indulgent. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#self-indulgent

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. ↗

— John Saxon

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If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya ↗

— Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

#life