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Births

• 1938 - Johnny Ball
• 1949 - Alan Garcia Perez
• 1779 - Paul Moody
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• Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I’ll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

  David Herbert Donald

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• Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

  Frank Harris

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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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• Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

  George Meredith

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• I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

  Isabel Allende

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• Before I’m a writer, I’m definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

  Augusten Burroughs

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• People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

  Tom Robbins

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• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

  Bill Clinton

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