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Quotes about autobiography
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. (Wright Steven)
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. (Wright Steven)
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of. (Wright Steven)
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. (Wright Steven)
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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. (Wright Steven)
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. (Wright Steven)
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. (Wright Steven)
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. (Wright Steven)
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. (Wright Steven)
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. (Wright Steven)
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. (Wright Steven)
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. (Wright Steven)
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. (Wright Steven)
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. (Wright Steven)
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty. (Wright Steven)
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. (Wright Steven)
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. (Wright Steven)
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to GCMG (God Calls Me God). (Wright Steven)
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. (Wright Steven)
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? (Wright Steven)
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. (Wright Steven)
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves. (Wright Steven)
I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea (Wright Steven)
And I'm writing a play - a one-man show that's very, very autobiographical, which ought to be ready by the end of the year. (Wright Steven)
It's not one of those tell-all typical autobiographies. It is a memoir. It's a reflection of my life in broad strokes really giving the reader my journey and my perspective of my own home in order for them to really understand what I refer to when I talk about a loss of community. (Wright Steven)
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