Autobiography and memoir

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

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Crowley, Aleister. The Spirit of Solitude. Mandrake Press, 1929.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 10.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 10.

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

Mary Butts

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Butts, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns. London: Metheun & Co., 1937.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 25.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 25.

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Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

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Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 17.

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Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 17.

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Arp, Jean. Arp on Arp: Poems, Essays, Memories, edited by Marcel Jean. Viking Press, 1972, p. 327.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.

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Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

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Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team.

Nick Hornby

Fever Pitch

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Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life. Victor Gollancz, 1992.