"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
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“How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.”
“Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.”
“Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.”
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“Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'”
“For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'”
“All criticism is a form of autobiography”
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“Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.”
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
“You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.”