DIARY in Classic Quotes

1  He put the diary away in the drawer.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  He did not touch the diary during those days.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

3  He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

6  Then he went to the table in the alcove, sat down, and took the diary out of the drawer.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

7  Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  As he put his hand to the door-knob Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

9  He picked up his pen half-heartedly, wondering whether he could find something more to write in the diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

10  It was precisely against suicidal impulses of this kind that he had hoped to guard himself by opening the diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  It was, he now realized, because of this other incident that he had suddenly decided to come home and begin the diary today.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  Suddenly the passage from the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston's mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

13  The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk-shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

14  The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

15  He tried to think of O'Brien, for whom, or to whom, the diary was written, but instead he began thinking of the things that would happen to him after the Thought Police took him away.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

16  He was writing the diary for O'Brien--TO O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its colour from that fact.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

17  It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1