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It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.

~Chadwick Boseman

Topics: Amen August Autobiography Big Big Thing Black Corner Course Fences Fire James Malcolm Malcolm X Me Next Next Time Read Thing Time Wilson Writers

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Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Autobiography Back Blush Career Dare Deeds Entire Entire Career Few Few Men Look Men Own Read Recorded Were Without Would

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I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

~Courtney Thorne-Smith

Topics: Autobiography Because Famous Food Got Had Hard Me Out Story Therapy Trouble

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Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Autobiography Bad Condemned Examples Except Form Generally Had His Literary Memory Nothing Novelist Others Poor Press Reveals Traditional Writer

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My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Autobiography Body Found Genetic Throughout

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Autobiography

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Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Accurate Any Autobiography Ballpark Construct Detail Diaries Diary Even Matters Memoirs Memory Only Percent Private Rarely Read Too Unnatural Unreliable

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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

~David Antin

Topics: Approval Autobiography Her Him His Husband Left Mother Presented Second She Wrote

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But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

~David Carradine

Topics: About Autobiography Awful Awful Lot Bad Bad Stuff Casting Directed Good Had He His Knows Lot Me Movies Read Seen Something Stuff Tarantino Things Think Which I Think

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'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.

~David Garrow

Topics: Any Autobiography Dreams Father Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Instead Memoir Question Ways Without Work

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