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

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Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
Autobiography
Ellery Sedgwick

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

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

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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Autobiography
Henry Kissinger

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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
Autobiography
Samuel Goldwyn

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Autobiography
Elias Canetti

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun