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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Duplicity, Generosity

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• Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.

  Kate Christensen

  Fun, Writing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!

  Anais Nin

  Busy, Moments, Ends

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• Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i started reading it and couldn't help but cry a little bit. cause that person was really confused. and very lost. and as it went on, the person behind the pen seemed to get a little bit stronger.. that part felt good. it was the reminder that i needed that right now i'm as strong as ever. there really isn't a point to telling you all of this. except maybe i want to thank you. cause you are a constant reminder. that i'm not as lost as i once was.

  Hayley Williams

  Strong, Confused, Reading

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• There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.

  Michael Chabon

  Museums, Canvas, Bedroom

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.247, Random House

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• After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

  Robin Tunney

  Documentaries, Medical, Feels

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• Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

  William Stafford

  Artist, Long, Assuming

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• And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Long, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.62, Del Rey

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• 
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  America, Vampire, Made

  "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter". Book by Seth Grahame-Smith, April 29, 2010.

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• It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

  Philip K. Dick

  Facts, Deranged, Persons

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Nice, Writing, Cat

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• Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Animal, Air

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• As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Long, Dots

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• Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Diaries, Graves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, North Atlantic Books

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• The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Struggle, Passion, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.248, Transaction Publishers

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• My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

  Sarah

  Notebook, Looks, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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• I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Memories, Writing, Giving

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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

  Diaries, Reason Why, Happens

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

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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, Diaries, Half

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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

  Diaries, Whole, Seems

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• Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

  Amelia Gray

  Writing, People, Want

  "Deus ex McFlurry: An Interview with Amelia Gray". Interview with Blake Butler, htmlgiant.com. November 29, 2010.

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