Quotation: Probably Orwell..

jamesy boy | 11:50 Sun 19th Feb 2006 | Arts & Literature

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Looking for a quotation, probably Orwell, to paraphrase:

"Each life, when viewed from the internal, is seen as a series of failures."

Anyone find it/know where it comes from?

(Read it years ago in a Morrissey review, seems truer now than ever!)

Rails Through The Sand - WJ Milner

Painting with acrylics

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robbo82

It is Orwell. It's from Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali and the full quotation is : "Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."

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