The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. Barrie
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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JOHN M. BARRIE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his h...
JAMES M. BARRIE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his h...
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JANE COLLINS I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vom...
ENOCH POWELL To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
ENOCH POWELL you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at...
SUSAN CAIN Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that dia...
DOUGLAS PAGELS To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
ENOCH POWELL It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.
A.D. POSEY Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
JAMES M. BARRIE A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.
PAWAN MISHRA A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.
VIKRANT PARSAI A photographer is an autobiographer who writes a complete story of a subject in one picture.
ARSLAN AHMAD In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every dra...
HAZRAT ALI Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger�...
TéA OBREHT The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. T...
FULTON OURSLER In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. Th...
FULTON OURSLER To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a st...
EDWARD ZWICK Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete....
DAVID BERGEN Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them...
ROMAN PAYNE If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ...
THEA HARRISON A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He i...
HENRY MILLER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ...
HERMANN HESSE Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his inst...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
PETER GREENAWAY Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it o...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the ...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Keep a diary and one day it will keep you. A hard man is good to find!
MAE WEST I look into the diary of the universe and find out that every man is a star in the galaxy but until ...
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK America has meant to the world a land in which the common man who means well and is willing to do hi...
ALVIN SAUNDERS JOHNSON Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
PABLO PICASSO Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale co...
H. RAP BROWN I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries t...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an...
JASMINA TEšANOVIć One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the...
KATHRYN HARRISON Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power ove...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular...
P.D. JAMES One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day alike. Let every man be full...
BIBLE We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has for...
G.K. CHESTERTON Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, prete...
HERMANN HESSE Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY A diary means yes indeed
GERTRUDE STEIN Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, withou...
MAX MULLER And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story whi...
C.S. LEWIS When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hil...
RALPH BELLAMY Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page...
RICHARD MARSH It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE Life is a myriad of events and experiences which play one after another.
AARON SANTOS My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite un...
AMITABH BACHCHAN He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. H...
DONALD MILLER One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes whi...
FRANZ KAFKA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after ...
C.S. LEWIS Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURY If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformat...
DONALD MILLER Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
OSCAR WILDE Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
OSCAR WILDE Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past...
JOSé N. HARRIS To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by y...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In 2,000 years God has never changed the strategy. The strategy of men coming to know Jesus Christ i...
BOB RECCORD It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth
JOHN LOCKE She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
ANAïS NIN The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the powe...
THOMAS MALTHUS The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he w...
OWEN MEREDITH Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his s...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clich?s that...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unabl...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed ...
CHARLES DICKENS All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: no...
C.S. LEWIS He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.
DR. KYACISS PFIELL If you wanted to tell stories, he could tell them into the night. I used to kid that every story he ...
MARLIN FITZWATER With every opinion, it is closing another chapter in the story.
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Who are they?"
They are the c...
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J.M. BARRIE Why can't you fly now, mother?"
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How am I deficient?
You're just a boy.
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J.M. RICHARDS Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. COETZEE I am not the we of anyone
J.M. COETZEE Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ...
J.M. STEWART The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...
J.M. COETZEE Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d...
J.M. NORTHUP He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
J.M. COETZEE Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
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J.M. DARHOWER Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö...
J.M. COETZEE That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE