Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.


"Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dalí," Dickens, Dali & Others: Studies in Popular Culture (1944)

George Orwell Quotes

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any...

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any...

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any...

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any...