Diaries Quotes - Page 12

• Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Chronicles, Happened

  "Epigrams & Aphorisms".

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• Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Exercise, Bed

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• After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Writing, Thinking

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• There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Goal, Trying, Cameras

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• I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Princess Diaries, Series

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• Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

  Eudora Welty

  Memories, Letters, Born

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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.

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Book, Thinking, My Favorite

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• But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

  Isaac Marion

  What Matters, Want, Next

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Danger, Bigs

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

  David Sedaris

  Moving, Excellence, Might

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• Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Writing, School

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam

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• In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Video, Taste, Firsts

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Talking, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Discovery, People

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• Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Order, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Pain, Love You

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• Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

  Harvey Mackay

  Memories, Ink And Paper, Pale

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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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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• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  A. C. Benson

  Book, Giving, Needs

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• I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Different, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Ron Rash" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

  Oren Peli

  Crazy, People, Degrees

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• The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Lines, Opening

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Emotional, Taught, Moments

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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, Half, Alive

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