Top Memoirs Quotes
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald Clarke
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith
Andy Hertzfeld 
Comte de Lautreamont 
Joe Eszterhas 
David Ben-Gurion 
Armistead Maupin 
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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova 
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld
56% of people like this quote
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald Clarke
53% of people like this quote
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
William J. Clinton
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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell
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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion
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