Diaries Quotes

• One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

  Franz Kafka

  Suffering, Clarity, Reassuring

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Library, Furniture

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2016

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• I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

  Enoch Powell

  Writing

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• In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Hollywood, Dies

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• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

  Edvard Munch

  Spiritual, Ordinary, Records

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

  Mae West

  Funny, Someday

  Every Day's a Holiday (motion picture) (1937) See Proverbs 159

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• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  Walter Scott

  Women, Treasure, Dull

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• Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

  Jennifer Connelly

  Dark, Water, Motorcycle

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• Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Years, Two, Archives

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Thinking, Leaving

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• You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Mind, Would Be, World

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• The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Launching, Personal Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Perfect, Norwegians

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• The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

  Ken Burns

  Halloween, Light, Challenges

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

  Justin Hayward

  Song, Heart, People

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Philosophical, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

  David Sedaris

  Years

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• A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

  William Allingham

  Book, Men, Hands

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Dark, Night, Yield

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• There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

  Bruce Schneier

  Sister, Reading, Government

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• I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Records, Made

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