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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."
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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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