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I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.


Grimes
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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.


Nikos Kazantzakis
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.


Jean Giraudoux
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.


Peace Pilgrim
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.


William James
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?


Anthony Hope
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.


Mary J. Blige
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.


Pamela Stephenson
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The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.


Marcel Duchamp
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.


Philip Guedalla
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.


John Berger
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
Gregory Benford
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
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When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
John Lahr
Tags: Family Up Only
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
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
Francis Chan