"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

Autobiography, Being, Sense

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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

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

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Autobiography, Nothing

"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

Autobiography, Writing

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

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

Autobiography, Comedy

"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."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Autobiography, Celebrity

"I believe there's only one autobiography you can do."

John McEnroe, American Athlete

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

Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

Autobiography, Lying

"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."

Pamela Stephenson, Australian Actress

Autobiography, May

"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."

Eyvind Johnson, Swedish Author

Autobiography, Prose, Years

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Autobiography, Artist

"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."

Joan Collins, American Actress

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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

Dying

"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

"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

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

Home

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

Experience

"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

"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

"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."

Nature

"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