"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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"Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
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"I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour."
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"At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer."
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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."
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"Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?"
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"Everyone should keep someone else's diary."
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"Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out."
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"Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping."
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"[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it."
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"I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life."
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"If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs."
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"My diary seems to keep me whole."
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"The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium."
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"The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial."
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"Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind."
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