The Jewish center on Kings Highway scheduled an interview at the local labor hall downtown for my father to meet one of their counselors in order to asses his skills and capabilities. When my father sat down with the fellow and asked all sorts of questions, his reply was a blank stare. Boris didn't understand a word. He did speak a little English | He knew two words, pipe and chair. So Boris did the smart thing. He kept saying pipe over and over. Whatever question, he simply replied... pipe. The counselor soon got the gist | Boris must be a plumber. He was handed a small slip of paper and was instructed to report to the address penciled on it at 6 am sharp the following day.

~ Gary Gunz Govich

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How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

~ Malcolm X

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Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the name of fighting crime. Prison places cost the US taxpayer more than university places. The American belief that prisons are the best way to combat crime has led to an incarceration rate that is at least five times that of almost any industrialised nation. Overcrowding is endemic. Conditions are appalling, varying from windowless, sensory-deprived isolation to barren futile brutality.

~ Howard Marks

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Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel

~ Frederick Weisel

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What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

~ Randy Alcorn

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To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

~ James Patterson

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Monotony is the only reward of the cautious

~ A. Somebody

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This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

~ Nigel Goodall

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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

~ Federico Fellini

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

~ Havelock Ellis

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