"every living person should be forced to write an autobiography. They should have to go back and unravel and disclose all the stuff that was packed into their lives. Finding the unusual way authors put ideas into words gives me a very satisfying knowledge that I could do this too if I focused on it. It might help me release the pressure I feel from stored up memories that are affecting me now. But I do something terribly wrong. I tell myself I'm too controlled by my past habits. I really want to write about my life, the close friends I knew, the family life we had, but I hold back. If I would be totally honest, I think I could reach a point where I'd begin seeing ME in a more understandable light. Now I'm jumpy in my recollected thought, yet I know it would be nothing but good for me to do this.". Excerpt from Diane Keaton's book "THEN AGAIN".
Above is one of the passages she takes from one of her mothers 80 some personal journals and expounds on it in her newest autobiography. So far...this book is amazing and I'm seeing a lot of myself in Diane's mother...
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