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“It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.”
― Gregg Allman

“Even bitches who live on pickles and cocaine have their limits.”
― Maria Bamford, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”
― Mary Karr

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry,”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.”
― Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
― Keith Richards

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
― Keith Richards, According to the Rolling Stones

“Memory is fiction,”
― Keith Richards, Life

“I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.”
― Keith Richards

“I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.”
― Keith Richards

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I look at every book as a self-help book.”
― Marc Maron

“I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.”
― Marc Maron

“There are some things you can't un-fuck.”
― Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

“So there you go: I am not a trustworthy narrator of my own experience. I may be making stuff up. But it felt like that’s what happened. I felt all alone, but I was not at all alone and I was loved and maybe even having a great time. And that may still describe me now, despite my whinging.”
― Maria Bamford, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

“I am a withered pouch of low blood pressure in a deteriorating caul of papery skin covered in thick black arm hair.”
― Maria Bamford, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

“What have I wanted? To be someone else entirely. Someone who loves to live. How have I gone about getting that? By participating in CULTS! And by reading self-help books that (temporarily) “CHANGE MY LIFE”!”
― Maria Bamford, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

“The most basic rule of editing is that if you can’t bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.”
― Marion Roach Smith, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

“When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer, even if we’ve been raised that way."

(Address, 2011 Endometriosis Foundation of America Blossom Ball)”
― Susan Sarandon