"I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music."
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"Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone."
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"I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin."
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"I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?"
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"My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine."
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"I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can."
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"I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!"
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"I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be."
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"Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant."
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"Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true."
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