Unexpurgated Diaries Quotes

#1. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Leonard Woolf

#2. We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other people to be curious for them. That's what I do for a living.

Ron Miriello

#3. Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don't need the truth. Or maybe it's just that you need the truth the most at times you think you don't want to hear it.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#4. You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

Richard Flanagan

#5. At this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came over me marked me forever. It became my true passion, utterly heedless of any attempts at convincing me or pointing out a better way.

Elias Canetti

#6. Adversity brings out a man's character.
Prosperity kills it.

Manoj Vaz

#7. Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#8. That right there, what just happened, is called attraction. A-trak-shee-un. Look it up in the dictionary.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

Martin Luther

#10. Everything is magic when you don't know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

Byron Katie

#12. What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

Rachel Aaron

#13. A low, silver sports car roared past at high speed, missing them by inches. Nancy glimpsed the man at the wheel long enough to register his dark mustache and the pipe clenched in his teeth. "What a menace," George said, shaking her head in disgust. Nancy

Carolyn Keene

#14. When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

Deepak Chopra

#15. What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.

Studs Terkel