Sentence examples for reading this diary from inspiring English sources
You assert that reading this diary was disturbing, and I believe you.
She takes her cue from Woolf's much-noted remark of 1929: "If I were reading this diary..
By Ruth Margalit December 31, 2013 "If I were reading this diary," Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, in 1929, "I think I should seize with greed on the portrait of Nellie, and make a story — perhaps make the whole story revolve around that — it would amuse me.
Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty "If I were reading this diary," Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, in 1929, "I think I should seize with greed on the portrait of Nellie, and make a story — perhaps make the whole story revolve around that — it would amuse me.
If the writer discovered anyone reading this sort of diary they would be mortified, but who would want to?
To give you a little taste, we have collected 10 of the greatest quotes from Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl that are bound to make you want sit down right away and (finally) read this wonderful diary from cover to cover, if you haven't already.
Don't start reading the diary right away if you don't have much time.
The submission of African women in particular undergirds this history: Read the diary of plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, where he details the 138 slave women he raped on a Jamaican plantation.
In Mr. Liechti's film an off-screen narrator flatly reads the diary entries of this unnamed man as he meticulously charts his own dying ("Day 20, felt like vomiting," for example) and shares his musings, mainly on death.
At 15 the severe frontispiece to her first diary reads: "This document is strictly private.
