#diary

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

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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

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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

#experiences #i #lengthy #made #notes

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. ↗

— Mae West

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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

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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

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

— Oscar Wilde

#carry #diary #memory #us

I don't want to be singing my diary. ↗

— Norah Jones

#i #singing #want

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

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