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• I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Birthday, Moving, Tired

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• My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.

  Zlata Filipović

  Anything And Everything, Events, Records

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• Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

  Laini Taylor

  War, Hero, Tired

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• My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Today, Sides, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Girl, Memories, Bed

  Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

  Rob Thomas

  Decision, Materials, Persons

  Rob Thomas (2013). “Rats Saw God”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  Rachel Caine

  Summer, Teacher, Crazy

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• They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Girl, Writing, Remember

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Holiday

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• I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Writing, Trying

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• What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Years, Work Out, Secret

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved." p 272

  Lisa Genova

  Girl, Powerful, Teenager

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

  Mindy Kaling

  Ipods, Looks, Playlists

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.198, Crown/Archetype

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• It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)

  Erin Gruwell

  Dream, Heart, Self Worth

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• Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

  Erin Gruwell

  Fighting, Matter, Solve

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• I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

  A. A. Milne

  Reason Why, Journal, Happens

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.71, The Floating Press

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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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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Kind, Guilty

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919".

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• But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

  Betsy Lerner

  Believe, Writing, Blue

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.19, Penguin

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• Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Past, Events, Documentation

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• Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Morning, Lunch

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.

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• My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

  Carrie Snodgress

  Dream, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Records, Blushing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.45, 谷月社

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• The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Real

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