A Quote by Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies. — © Clare Boothe Luce
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

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Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.
I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
I graduated first in my class from alibi school.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
I like to read. Autobiographies.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
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