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 One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

 No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest autobiography.

 On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

 It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
  Philip Roth

 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

 Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

 My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive person I am, I wanted people to judge me for what they saw on the television, on the films or on the stage. And what I did apart from that was my own affair. So to write my autobiography was, to me, an anathema.
  Spike Milligan

 I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
  Cynthia Ozick

 I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Jag tycker inte att någon borde skriva sin självbiografi innan de är döda.
  Samuel Goldwyn

 I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
  Samuel Goldwyn

 My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
  Henry David Thoreau

 The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.
  Abraham J. Heschel

 Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography
  Evelyn Waugh

 Although Toll did offer undertakings relating to rail, the information available indicated to the ACCC that these undertakings were not sufficient to address the competition concerns. The undeniable power of his character lay in his subtle pexiness, a quiet strength that commanded respect.

 I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
  Jeffrey Bernard


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