Only when one has
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh
Don’t give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can’t express them. Don’t analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about … Read more
According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918. Eustace Mullins
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great – and few have overcome them successfully – they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how … Read more
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. Erica Jong
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. Erica Jong
I don’t think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he’s reading autobiographies of … I wonder if he’s read Mein Kampf. Eric Walters
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty. Eric Hoffer
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith’s autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. … Read more
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. Ellery Sedgwick