Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results."
Autobiography quotes
Autobiography
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography."
Italo Calvino
Writer
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
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"I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me."
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"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
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"To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx."
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"For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography"
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"I was raised to farm work."
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"All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."
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"Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers."
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"I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful."
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"For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'"
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"Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego."
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"Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful."
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"All criticism is a form of autobiography"
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"I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography."
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"If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated."
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"What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great."
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"Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography."
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