#biography

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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. ↗

— Philip Roth

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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

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George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with ↗

— Justin Spring

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