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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
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"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."

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

"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."

"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with 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!"

"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."

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

"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."

"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
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