What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
Diary Quotes
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one own’s identity.
I fall back on this journal just as some other poor devil takes to drink.
I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.
I should live no more than I can record, as one should not have more corn growing than one can get at. There is a waste of good if it be not preserved.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in a train.
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Though watchful of the world around him and especially attentive to the miens of the men who might advance his career, Pepys also possesses an irrepressible gusto for life itself, and he works his hedonism hard: music-making, theater-going, flirting, drinking, paying social calls, reading, conversing and disputing with his wife. They’re all scribbled down in […]
