“Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.”

—  Clarence Darrow

Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 1 "Before The Beginning"
Context: Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. The young look forth across the sea to a mirage of fairylands filled with hidden treasures; the aged turn to the fading past, and through the mist and haze that veils once familiar scenes, bygone events assume weird and fanciful proportions.

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