Diaries Quotes - Page 8

• I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Princess Diaries, Series

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• Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

  Eudora Welty

  Memories, Letters, Born

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• When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Pain, Love You

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• Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Order, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Discovery, People

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• Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Talking, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Video, Taste, Firsts

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• Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Writing, School

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam

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• whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

  David Sedaris

  Moving, Excellence, Might

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• I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Danger, Bigs

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

  Isaac Marion

  What Matters, Want, Next

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Book, Thinking, My Favorite

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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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• 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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• 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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• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

  Oren Peli

  Crazy, People, Degrees

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• The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

  Anais Nin

  Emotional, Taught, Moments

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• I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

  May Sarton

  Beautiful, Half, Alive

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• The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

  Sheila Bender

  Distance, Writing, Journey

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• My diary seems to keep me whole.

  Anais Nin

  Journal, Whole, Seems

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• Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

  Hillary Clinton

  Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Vitality, Essentials

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• An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

  Tim Lucas

  Men, Special, Hell

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