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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

Havelock Ellis quotes (British psychologist and author 1859-1939)

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“An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”

George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

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“For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.”

Robert Penn Warren quotes

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“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”

Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)

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“Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.”

Humphrey Carpenter quotes

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“Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.”

Lord Altrincham quotes

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“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”

Daphne Du Maurier quotes

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“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

Philip Guedalla quotes (English Historian, 1889-1944)

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“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.”

Donal Henahan quotes

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“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.”

Samuel Goldwyn quotes (Polish born American movie Producer and Founder of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924. 1882-1974)

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