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Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

Source: No Man Knows My History, Ch. 19, 1945.
-- Fawn M Brodie, (Sep 15 1915-1981), US author; She wrote biographies of Sir Richard Burton, Joesph Smith, Thomas Jefferson; won Knopf biography award, 1943.


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