Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at ourselves, where… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
“Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“That's the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
