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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
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"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
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"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."
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"I believe there's only one autobiography you can do."
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"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
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"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
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"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
God
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
Home
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
Life
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time
"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
Thought
"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being
"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."
Photography
"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
Voice
"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
Dying
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
Autobiography
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