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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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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 spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
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"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography."
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"There may be a point where I may decide to write an 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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"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time
"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."
Life
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
Experience
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
Being
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
Death
"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
"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."
Media
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
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