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

— Tallulah Bankhead

As quoted in The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989) by Ronald Blythe, p. 3
As quoted in Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (1997) by Melosina Lenox-Conynghim, p. vii
Variant: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

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American actress 1902–1968

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