Journal Quotes - Page 9

• 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, Diaries, Boring

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• Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Diaries, Honest

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Diaries, Down And, Our Family

  "Bring Me a Unicorn".

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• I will write myself into well-being.

  Nancy Mairs

  Writing, Diaries, Well Being

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• When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

  Duke of Wellington

  Legacy, Statues

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• Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

  Kenneth Williams

  Loneliness, Diaries

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• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Wall, Business

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• I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Feelings, Keepers

  "Kidd, Taylor take personal journey with Pomegranates". Interview with Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. September 13, 2009.

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• With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Writing, Rights, Passionate

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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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• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

  Jess Walter

  Block, Coffee, Writing

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Writing, Weight, Way

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• I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Evil, History, Generations

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• Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

  Ken Burns

  Children, Writing, Letters

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• I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Dresses, Chandeliers

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• I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

  Emma Caulfield

  Love Life, Thinking, Talking

  "Exclusive Q&A: Actress Emma Caulfield Picks the Right TiMER". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Kids, House, Research

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• I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

  Eric Stoltz

  Cutting, Cnn, Trying

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• There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fighting, Cities, People

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• The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

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