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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so."
"I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent."
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
"If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography."
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
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