#bio

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#after #ago #autobiography #coming #couple

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#distort #facts #fiction #lies #never

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#biochemical #could #found #i #liked

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense. ↗

— Don Nickles

#capabilities #capability #chemical #countries #deploy

We're all negotiators. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

My autobiography was simply the story of my life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#life #my life #simply #story

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription. ↗

— Carre Otis

#antibiotics #cases #doctor #every #grew

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#become #biographies #certain #faces #number