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• That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

  Cris Mazza

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Notebook, Girl, Real

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  A. C. Benson

  Book, Giving, Needs

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• May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Educational, Writing, Years

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• I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream.                 Claim your promise.                                   Spell your miracle.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Writing

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.15, Zondervan

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• My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Vocabulary, Useless

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

  Lauren Willig

  Battle, Usual, Sniping

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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• As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

  Jamais Cascio

  Real, Book, Website

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• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  Barbara Feldon

  Book, Writing, Living Alone

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

  Mandy Moore

  Notebook, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Firsts, Looks

  Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society

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• In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

  Susan Sontag

  Persons, Keeping A Journal, Journaling

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.322, Macmillan

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• When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

  Thomas Merton

  Discovery, Years, Found

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Genius, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

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• Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Facts, Novelists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

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• Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.

  Daniel Levitin

  Children, Age, Peers

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

  Christina Baldwin

  Teacher, Writing, Diaries

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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• I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

  Duff McKagan

  Crazy, Writing, Littles

  FaceBook post by Duff McKagan from Jul 30, 2015

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• Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dust, Doe, Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.233, Graphic Arts Books

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• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  Andrew Revkin

  Pain, Animal, Technology

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• A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.

  Ann M. Martin

  Couple, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Moving, Land, Mind

  Source: www.spin.com

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