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• George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

  Robert Kroetsch

  Baseball, Running, Fun

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• En sus memorias, Anne Robinson relata la llamada de atención que la motivó a dejar de beber. Dejó a su hija de ocho años sola en el coche mientras iba a comprar licor y, al volver, la encontró con lágrimas en los ojos. La culpa y el horror que sintió la Sra. Robinson al ver aquello la empujaron a la sobriedad.

  Ana Robinson

  Hija, Correr, Beber

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• Las memorias son dignas de confianza y su verdad está garantizada cuando buscan la relación entre el yo y el tiempo, el ensamblaje de los fragmentos de la experiencia personal en el paisaje de estrellas de la noche de la historia. Los materiales de las memorias son humildes, fugitivos, una industria artesanal que busca la verdad narrativa a través de la grieta del tiempo, al tiempo que la autobiografía se pliega en el vasto y fluido ensayo que es la historia. Una sola voz cantando su aria en un rincón del abarrotado mundo.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humilde, Noche, Tejer

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• No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day.  If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.

  Jonis Agee

  Book, Kansas, Years

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• America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

  Malcolm X

  White, America, Forever

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

  Mark Helprin

  Thinking, Life Is, Cases

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• Me abrí paso a codazos hasta la mugrienta cafetería, compré una tarta que sabía a betún de zapatos y una tetera en la que flotaban migas de corcho, y escuché a escondidas a un par de criadores de ponis Shetland. El desaliento nos hace añorar vidas que nunca hemos vivido. ¿Por qué has dedicado tu vida a los libros, TC? ¡Aburrido, aburrido, aburrido! Las memorias ya son malas, ¡pero toda esa ficción! El héroe se va de viaje, un extraño llega a la ciudad, alguien quiere algo, lo consigue o no, la voluntad se enfrenta a la voluntad. "Admiradme, porque soy una metáfora.

  David Mitchell

  Libro, Héroe, Viaje

  David Mitchell (2008). "El atlas de las nubes: A Novel", p.169, Random House

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• I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Libro, Escritura, Años

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• Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, Trying, May

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• I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

  Pauline Kael

  Escribir, pensar

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Conversations with Pauline Kael”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Eight

  Margery Allingham (1959). "El crimen y el Sr. Campion"

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• I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Thinking, Mets, Persons

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Memories, Writing, Easy

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• No sé dónde se originó la idea de que escribir memorias es catártico. Para mí, siempre ha sido como hacer de neurocirujano, sin anestesia. Como escritor de memorias, tienes que abrirte la cabeza y examinar todo lo que te incomoda.

  Koren Zailckas

  Escritura, Ideas, Grietas

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• A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

  Tony Blankley

  Political, Honest, Persons

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• The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.

  Terry Wolverton

  Girl, Sex, Motherhood

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• Las deliciosas memorias de Clyde Phillip Wachsberger sobre el cuidado de los parterres de flores para compensar la soledad de la mediana edad y encontrar un romance inesperado en el camino son un dulce recordatorio de que, como él dice, "en un jardín puede pasar cualquier cosa". Con una prosa que equilibra la franqueza con la cortesía perfecta, nos encanta con el mensaje de que mantener un jardín con un compañero querido, la más efímera de todas las artes, puede proporcionarnos las alegrías y los placeres más duraderos.

  Philip Gambone

  Solitario, Dulce, Arte

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• Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

  Rupert Everett

  Writing, People, Age

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• It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Book, Narrators, Connections

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• He leído las memorias de mi abuela, que fue enfermera durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Lo que tuvieron que hacer fue increíble.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  War, Grandmother, Nurse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Robert Spencer, prolífico escritor antiislámico y destacado islamófobo empeñado en tergiversar el islam y demonizar a los musulmanes, ha sostenido insistentemente que la violencia y el terrorismo empleados por los extremistas musulmanes tienen sus raíces en el Corán y en su mensaje. Spencer llama al Corán, libro sagrado para los musulmanes, "el Mein Kampf de los yihadistas", en referencia a las memorias de Hitler.

  Louay M. Safi

  Book, Muslim Extremists, Islam

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• Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Girl, Dream, Determination

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Men, Sea

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

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• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  Carly Fiorina

  Book, Novelists, Wells

  "RCP Newsmaker Interview With Carly Fiorina". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 5, 2010.

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