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265 Diaries quotes by 213 unique authors
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I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
— David Rockefeller
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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…
— Walter Scott
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I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be…
— David Sedaris
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I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.
— David Sedaris
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot…
— Patti Smith
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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
— Gwen Stefani
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A diary means yes indeed.
— Gertrude Stein
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying…
— Tom Stoppard
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
— Taylor Swift
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
— Mae West
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
— Oscar Wilde
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements…
— A. N. Wilson
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I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
— Steven Wright
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The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
— Henny Youngman
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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…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
— Oscar Wilde
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it…
— Franz Kafka
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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook...…
— Jane Austen
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
— Anais Nin
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My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and…
— Zlata Filipović
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have…
— Mark Leyner
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First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when…
— Jeff Kinney
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