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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Autobiography

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
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.
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.


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