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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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"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
"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."
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."
"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!"
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
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"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind."
"Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone."
"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."
"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one."
"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
"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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