Diaries Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Land, Film, Foreign Lands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

  Nick Cave

  Mean, Writing, Musical

  Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. March 31, 2008.

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

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Names, Poetry, Verses

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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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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• 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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• 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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• I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

  Doug Liman

  Track, Way, Interviews

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• 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.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Jilted

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.149, Penguin

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• With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."

  Taryn Manning

  Character, Guy, Feelings

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jobs, Princess, School

  Teen People Magazine, May 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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