"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

Vita Sackville-West

 

Diary

I've never kept a diary, but if my daughters can fill book upon book with grave and beautiful thoughts about their lives, and their friends' lives, and their friends' mothers and fathers and, maybe, even their own mother and father, then I'm willing to have a go too.

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