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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.

— Tallulah Bankhead The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989)

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As quoted in Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (1997) by Melosina Lenox-Conynghim, p. vii

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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

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