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"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

Auden, W. H. · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another."

Bastos, Augusto Roa · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Benjamin, Walter · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

Berger, John · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Brodie, Fawn M. · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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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."

Calvino, Italo · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."

Canetti, Elias · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Cardus, Neville · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Chandler, Raymond · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."

Crisp, Quentin · Autobiography · 0 fans >>
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