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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
-Kurt Cobain
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We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying about leaving it.
-Lee J. Colan
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
-Quentin Crisp
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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.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-Salvador Dali
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
-Rene Descartes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
-Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
-Leon Edel
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My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is properly no history; only biography.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Feedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
-Medgar Evers, June 7, 1963
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
-Richard Feynman
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
-Louis Fischer
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
-T. H. Gibblings
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
-Edward Gibbon
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, all will be settled, that all will have been done. Perhaps I will have the desire to add to this again. To add something. To add. Perhaps. To add to this again at the last moment
http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/textes/gide_ang.rtf
-Andre Gide
the source for this writes: Six days before his death, Gide writes, on a separate sheet of paper
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
-Samuel Goldwyn
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Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
-John Grigg
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
-Philip Guedalla
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An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
-Barbara G. Harris
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