Diaries Quotes - Page 11

• I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.

  Jo Yoon-hee

  Drama, Realizing, Like You

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

  Laozi

  New Year, Happy Life, Years

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• Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

  Sarah Silverman

  Women, Tombstone, Games

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.

  Joao Magueijo

  Courage, Science, Views

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• It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Home, Names

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Beautiful, Moon, Sky

  Alfred Kreymborg, “Old Manuscript”

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• The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.

  Jerry Stahl

  Heart, Eye, Reality

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• A great library contains the diary of the human race.

  Geraldine Dawson

  Race, Library, Librarian

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• Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.

  Jonas Mekas

  New York, Reality, Order

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• If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

  David Sedaris

  Inspirational, What You Deserve, Ifs

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• My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Past, Each Day

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• I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

  Erik Larson

  Reading, Bigs, Found

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• I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.

  Anna Nalick

  Naked, Crowds, Causes

  Song: Breathe, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005

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• Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Real, Mistake

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• My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

  Dave Navarro

  Tattoo, Meaningful, Powerful

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• I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

  Steffi Graf

  Hands, Might, Notes

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• Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Beautiful, Sexy, Love You

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• Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

  David Sedaris

  Fighting, July, Looks

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• I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states." "Great," Amy groaned. "I sent you to a tutorial with a crook." "It got us in here, didn't it?" "I guess I'm grateful to him, then," Amy said doubtfully. "Don't be," Dan said. "The first lock I opened was on your diary. Don't worry, I read two pages and fell asleep.

  Judy Blundell

  Grateful, Two, Security Systems

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• The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

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• Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Virginia, Two

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• Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story of her innocuous life. What on earth could an ancient girl have known that would be worth killing someone over? (Tory) You’re asking me that question? People kill each other over a pair of shoes or for wearing the same jacket. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Killing Someone, Shoes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.547, St. Martin's Press

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• And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Writing, Three, Answers

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• Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

  Steven Morrissey

  Pages, Empty, Save Me

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• This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

  Anais Nin

  Addiction, Drug, Vices

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