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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
"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!"
"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."
"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'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
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"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
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