“It is frustrating to be translating other people's autobiographies whilst mine is lying unpublished, banned by the Home Office.”

— Dennis Nilsen

As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-dennis-nilsen-prison-life-555104, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)

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British serial killer 1945–2018

Philip Guedalla (1889–1944) British historical writer

"Biographers and Their Victims," http://books.google.com/books?id=yCgoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Autobiography+that+unrivalled+vehicle+for+telling+the+truth+about+other+people%22&pg=PA136#v=onepage Debate with A. G. Gardiner at The London School of Economics (June 1923) http://archive.org/stream/yeaandnay00anonuoft#page/136/mode/2up

“It's not lying when you do it to officers!”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court.”

John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge

Rex v. Beardmore (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 175.

“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.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

"Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dalí," Dickens, Dali & Others: Studies in Popular Culture (1944) http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dali/english/e_dali

“Loving the din and people of din is a great thing. However, to focus on the faults of others whilst not assessing one’s own faults is incorrect.”

Hussain Ahmed Madani (1879–1957) 19th century Islamic scholar of India

Hussain Ahmad Madani, Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.76 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi

“We desperately need a sociopath test for all politicians. We have the technology to find out if people lack empathy. If they do, they should be banned from running for office, serving on corporate boards, or having any kind of authority.”

Lee Camp (1980) American comedian, writer, and activist

Twitter, https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1282094933231509505 (12 July 2020)

“People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.”

Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

“I am planning on an autobiography. People should know something about me”

Sachin Tendulkar (1973) A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in the world

Tendulkar said when interviewed about his retirement, Tendulkar retirement interview http://www.dw.de/cricket-legend-tendulkar-opens-a-new-innings/a-17353929.

“Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

<nowiki>Re: [ 00/19 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2, 3.10.1-stable review</nowiki>, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-07-15, 2013-07-17]
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