#biography

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. ↗

— Anne Spollen

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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. ↗

— Cilla Black

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. ↗

— Jim Hodges

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