Diaries Quotes (page 5)
I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans...[and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands.
Mackenzie King
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths." -- Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
![Candace Bushnell quote: "A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed..."](/pic/235768/600x316/quotation-candace-bushnell-a-writer-must-be-fearless-a-writer-has-to-be.jpg)
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
Virginia Woolf
![Steven Morrissey quote: "The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like..."](/pic/226831/600x316/quotation-steven-morrissey-the-smiths-was-an-incredibly-personal-thing-to.jpg)
![Liza Minelli quote: "In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave..."](/pic/223343/600x316/quotation-liza-minelli-in-hollywood-now-when-people-die-they-dont-say.jpg)
![Evelyn Glennie quote: "As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep..."](/pic/212973/600x316/quotation-evelyn-glennie-as-we-live-longer-and-healthier-for-longer-we.jpg)