#autobiography

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#because #famous #food #got #had

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

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Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#escape #frederick-weisel #teller #weisel #life

Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#affectionately #animals #autobiography #effecitively #effective

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already. ↗

— David Crockett

#marriage #marriage

It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#character-development #fighting-spirit #goals #independent #inspiration

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. ↗

— June Foray

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#anything #autobiography #else #footnote #his

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew. ↗

— Anne Moody

#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature