Even wondered about the difference?
Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.
Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness.
Tag: autobiography memoir
Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees.
Israelmore AyivorTag: thinking love animals work autobiography thought think positive trees working loving loved effective worked work-hard efficient living-things affectionate affectionately effecitively efficiently positively thing-big
The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.
Dimitra EkmektsisTag: autobiography memoir dimitra-ekmektsis quotes-i-love
YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE
Sondra A. TorresTag: inspirational family autobiography adoption fetal-alcohol-syndrome
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Clare BaldingTag: humor autobiography horses
How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
Malcolm XTag: change autobiography mortality unpredictability
[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]
Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.
Tag: truth autobiography lie criticism falsehood rabbi
The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.
Jack KerouacTag: autobiography beat memoir prose short-stories prose-poetry jack-kerouac atop-an-underwood
[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]
One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of the orchids. Around the same time he discovered a fascinating book at the home of his leftist parents, defending Leon Trotsky against Stalin. This was the origin of the vision that the young Rorty took with him to college: philosophy is there to reconcile the celestial beauty of orchids with Trotsky's dream of justice on earth. Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. Asked at the end of his life about the 'holy', the strict atheist answered with words reminiscent of the young Hegel: 'My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
Tag: inspirational love justice philosophy death atheism hope autobiography atheist law earth holy sacred hegel obituary joseph-stalin stalin orchids leon-trotsky descendants richard-rorty global-civilization ironist richard-rorty-obituary strict-atheist trotsky
I understand and I know from experience that: 'The kingdom of God is within you.' Jesus has no need of books or teachers to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of words. Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel that He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do. I find just when I need them certain lights that I had not seen until then, and it isn't most frequently during my hours of prayer that these are most abundant but rather in the midst of my daily occupations.
Thérèse of LisieuxTag: autobiography christian-living-inspirational
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