January 2023 – Diaries of Note

Emilie Davis

1st January 1863

To day has bin a memorable day
James Agate

2nd January 1942

New Year Resolutions
Noël Coward

3rd January 1968

The loss of a few years of gnarled old age does not oppress me
Katherine Mansfield

4th January 1920

The black fit
Toni Bentley

5th January 1981

The same ballets, season after season
Edmond de Goncourt

6th January 1871

The shells have begun falling
Daniil Kharms

7th January 1937

There lived a redheaded man
Arthur Crew Inman

8th January 1947

To hell with all of them
Marie Bashkirtseff

9th January 1874

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world
Matthew Modine

10th January 1986

A prehistoric, early man, guttural grunt
Jonas Mekas

11th January 1950

Never home
Chris Atkins

12th January 2017

Prisons make hundreds of brutally unjust mistakes every day
Nelson Mandela

13th January 1990

If they got a shock they endured it with grace
Mary MacLane

14th January 1901

Poor little Mary MacLane!
Keith Richards

15th January 1963

Charlie swings but hasn’t got right sound yet
Phyllis Chesler

16th January 1978

A breast-feeding Mother will not be tolerated
James Schuyler

17th January 1989

Yes, I liked him, and I’m glad I won’t be seeing him again
Mary Shelley

18th January 1824

My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep
M. C. Escher

19th January 1945

Is the present truly more real than the past?
Frederick Douglass

20th January 1887

He was meek and lowly, but here was little else than pride and pomp
François Truffaut

21st January 1966

“Stick to books that are in the public domain,” they said
Edvard Munch

22nd January 1892

I felt as though a vast, endless scream passed through nature
Alice Ehrmann

23rd January 1945

Even if your hands fall off, you are not permitted to let go
Đặng Thùy Trâm

24th January 1970

Death is so near and simple
Leo Tolstoy

25th January 1851

Went to a party and lost my head
Sir Alex Ferguson

26th January 1995

He karate-kicked him
Beatrix Potter

27th January 1884

A remarkable instance of a cat’s affection
Marion Milner

28th January 1927

You must get lost in the part
Bill Haley

29th January 1956

Segregation strong here
James Cook

30th January 1774

Farther than any other man has been before me
Flannery O’Connor

31st January 1944

I don’t live by the day. I live by the second.

Month: January