Sentence examples for no memoir from inspiring English sources

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Well, O.K. — the film's no memoir.

But this is no memoir.

As Ann Beattie notes in "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life," Richard Nixon's wife of 53 years wrote no memoir, rare among recent first ladies.

The boy's name is Michael, as is the author's, and both sailed to England from Sri Lanka; but this lovely, shimmering book of Michael Ondaatje's is no memoir.

The reticent Anton himself left no memoir of his childhood sorrows, though there are passages in his stories that are assumed to refer to them.

Although he has mined his family background in his novels, there would be no memoir, he said: "I haven't kept a diary.

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Alice: "We read only fiction, no memoirs or non-fiction.

Because she left no memoirs, her will is in many ways the most reliable picture of her.

Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language.

Sebba notes that, for instance, those who worked as prostitutes during the war "wrote no memoirs, were not part of the resistance, and so, in spite of being responsible for several courageous acts during the occupation, such as sheltering airmen in brothels as well as undertaking individual acts of great kindness in the [Ravensbrück] camp, have largely been forgotten by history".

"There are, unfortunately, no memoirs, no diaries, nothing to say for sure," Kushner explains.

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