Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"I want to live my life, not record it."
Diaries quotes
Diaries
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Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
Rachel Renée Russell
Author
"Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.~Dork Diaries"
Kenneth Williams
Actor
"I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?"
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"Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened."
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"I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary."
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"I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything."
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"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer."
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"Don't read my diary when I'm gone."
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"Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness."
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"A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary."
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"I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary."
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"Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment."
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"Better late than never."-Dork Diaries"
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"A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal."
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"People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living."
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"I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you."
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."
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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."
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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."
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"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."
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"Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous."
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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."
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"The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure."
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