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Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal QUOTES

Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal QUOTES

1 " Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession "

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2 " A diary or journal isn’t necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently. "

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3 " The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process. "

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4 " The internal Censor (and maddening companions); the necessity for privacy; the security of secrecy. To control these three fears is to unlock the secret of how to slip under the surface of the conscious mind where connections and freedom flourish. "

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5 " It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy. "

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6 " Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective. "

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7 " To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there’s always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming. "

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8 " Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. "

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9 " Ten million blank journals are sold annually in stationery stores alone. "

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10 " It’s estimated that sixty-five thousand thoughts float through our mind a day. "

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