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Tag Name "Memoirs" (95)

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Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.
Harlan Ellison
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When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.
Alix Kates Shulman
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As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.
Francine du Plessix Gray
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To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Tom Robbins
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Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.
John F. Kennedy
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My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
Marina Abramovic
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I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
Bruce Willis
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The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
Sabrina Jeffries
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As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for material. Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.
Lidia Yuknavitch
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I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.
Vivian Gornick
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I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
Kate Zambreno
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Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who had become spies and couriers and helped to create the escape network. These women were like action-star heroes.
Megan Chance
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Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story.
Fredrik Logevall
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I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
Erik Larson
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The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.
Vivian Gornick
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Moments fly, memories remain and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
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A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
Homer Hickam
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Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.
Debra Monroe
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