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"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."

"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!"

"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."

"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."

"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."

"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."

"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."

"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
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"I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?"

"The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks."
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