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• I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Adventure, Fire

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• The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Alcohol, Live In The Moment

  "Woman As Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 42), 1978.

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• Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Glasses, Vision

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

  Alice Munro

  Self, People, Remember

  "On "Dear Life": An Interview with Alice Munro". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

  Charles Dickens

  Heaven, Words Of Wisdom, Balance

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.352

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• The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

  William Klein

  Photography, New York, Lying

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• Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

  Jon Pareles

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

  Chris Hardwick

  Birthday, Girl, Song

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.82, Penguin

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• I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Boring, Mood

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• The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

  Anais Nin

  Want, Evening, Periods

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• Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Honest, Impulsive

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

  Anne Frank

  Joy, Sorrow, Contempt

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Delight, Leisure

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

  George Meredith

  Book, Becoming, Her Beauty

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Names, Poetry, Verses

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• My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Thinking, Our Family

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www1.ucsc.edu

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• To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Book, Writing, Aunt

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.237, e-artnow

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• I felt like Elena from Vampire Diaries. She has two insanely hot men who are in love with her and would do anything for her. One of which, she would give almost everything to be with, and the other she continues to push away, even though she can't ever actually stay away, so she won't have to admit she was in love with him too. At least my guys weren't brothers.

  Molly McAdams

  Brother, Men, Two

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• A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

  Mervyn Levy

  Expression, Drawing, Exhibitions

  Mervyn Levy (1965). “The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings”, London : Barrie & Rockliff

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• Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Land, Wish

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• I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Names

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1990.

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• One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

  John Jay Chapman

  Past, Men, Civilization

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Men, Light

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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