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— George Eliot"autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs."
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When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?
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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
— Alastair Campbell
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