Autobiography and memoir

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Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

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Grandma Moses. Grandma Moses: My Life's History, edited by Otto Kallir. Harper & Brothers, 1951.

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 24.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, ch. 9.

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Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

Life consists of two dates with a dash in between... Make the dash count.

Stuart Scott

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Scott, Stuart and Larry Platt. Every Day I Fight: Making a Difference, Kicking Cancer's Ass. Blue Rider Press, 2015.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 10.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 6.

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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. 6.

Someone ought to do it, so why not I?

Annie Besant

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Besant, Annie. Annie Besant: An Autobiography. London: Unwin, 1893.

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Besant, Annie. From Atheism to Theosophy: The Autobiography of Annie Besant. Mt. San Antonio College, 2020.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Keller, Helen. "The Story of My Life." Ladies' Home Journal, 1902.

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Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Signet, 2010, ch. 22.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

On Architecture

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Wren, Christopher. "On Architecture." Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens. London: Thomas Osborn, 1750, appendix, tract 1.

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Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Collins/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Memoires d'outre Tomb [Memoirs from Beyond the Grave]. Vol. 2, Paris: Penaud frères, 1850, bk. 5, ch. 14.

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De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800, translated by Alex Andriesse. NYRB Classics, 2018.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

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Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 2, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 15.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 15.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

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Graham, Martha. Blood Memory: An Autobiography. Doubleday, 1991.

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Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

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Buck, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. John Day Company, 1954.