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• A diary means yes indeed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Literature, Journal

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• The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Identity, Would Be

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, School

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  Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Girl, Time

  Recalled on her death,12 Dec 1968.

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• I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Song, Princess, Thinking

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• I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Lazy, Stories

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• But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Prison, Ends, Felt

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• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Play, Motorcycle, Twists

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• The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Ideas, Brilliant, Comic

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• People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

  Neil Sheehan

  Thinking, Opening Up, People

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• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Fun, School, Maturity

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

  L. J. Smith

  Falling In Love, Vampire, Stories

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• My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mother, Writing, Waiting

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• A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

  Anthea Turner

  Party, Events, Helping

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Problem, Boring

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

  David Rockefeller

  Notes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Passion, Adventure, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Sep 17, 2012

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• I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

  Heath Ledger

  Past, Planning, Tomorrow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, Brain, Entering

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

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• The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jobs, Sex, Reading

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

  Henry Miller

  Horse, Stars, Reading

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.273, New Directions Publishing

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• Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Want, Today

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  President, Hay, World

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• Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Graves, Journal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, North Atlantic Books

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