A Quote by Alexander Herzen

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Alexander Herzen

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Alexander Herzen
Russian - Journalist
April 6, 1812 - January 21, 1870

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Aldous Huxley

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.

Tim Minchin

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

Ian Brown

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

Ajahn Chah

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Samuel Richardson

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

Aleksandr Karelin

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

Meb Keflezighi

Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

Manning Marable

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

J. M. Coetzee

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Salman Rushdie

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Charles Bukowski

A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

Alfred Austin

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