Diaries Quotes - Page 18

• I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.

  Groucho Marx

  Thinking, Names, Would Be

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• What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Two, Squinting

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• Keeping a diary supports personal development.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Support, Development, Personal Development

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Photographer, Minutes

  Andy Warhol, William V. Ganis, Neil Baldwin, George Segal Gallery (Montclair, N.J.) (2009). “Andy Warhol: through a glass starkly : Sept. 8-Dec. 12, 2009 [exhibition catalog]”

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• For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

  Kate Zambreno

  Notebook, Years, Agitation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Reading, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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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.

  Debra Dean

  Black, Lucky, Letters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later. They can go through the history and see a trail. It's straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I'm not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.

  Adrian Marcel

  Honesty, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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