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Autobiography Definition  
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
Taryn Manning

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini

All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Daphne du Maurier

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
Harvey Pekar

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
Boris Becker

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samual

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
John Grigg

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Humphrey Carpenter

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Henry Ellis

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden

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