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Letter "A" » Autobiography
«All autobiography is self-indulgent.»
«Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.»
Author: Donal Henahan
| About:
Autobiography,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
advertisements, autobiographer, estate, prose
«An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Autobiography,
Life
| Keywords:
account, autobiographies, defeats, disgraceful, reveals, series, trusted, viewed
«Every artist writes his own autobiography.»
«Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.»
«Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.»
«Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.»
Author: Philip Guedalla
(Historian)
| About:
Autobiography
| Keywords:
autobiography, unrivaled, vehicle
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| About:
Autobiography,
Poetry,
Understanding
| Keywords:
hazardous, poem
«I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.»
«Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Autobiography,
Literature
| Keywords:
autobiographies, recall
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