July 2023 – Diaries of Note

Gordon Forbes

1st July 1968

More of London’s madness!
Tina Brown

2nd July 1990

Donald was the kid who threw cake at the birthday party
Lorraine Hansberry

3rd July 1961

How utterly mad it all is
H. R. Giger

4th July 1978

The prop department are about to fuck up the spacecraft
Spalding Gray

5th July 2001

Why me?
Helene Hanff

6th July 1971

BlooOOP, blooOOP
Emma Thompson

7th July 1995

Last day of shoot
David Sedaris

8th July 2002

Good work, Clifton
Anne Frank

9th July 1942

Our lovely Annex
Mary Berg

10th July 1941

The sound of bombs makes the air tremble
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

11th July 1999

What does it mean if we climb the heights and no one observes it?
Andrei Tarkovsky

12th July 1970

I’ll have to grow it again
Albert Speer

13th July 1959

Arrived in Peking today
Jane Goodall

14th July 1960

The home of the chimps
Lafcadio Hearn

15th July 1891

The Ape of Waters
Alexandra Feodorovna

16th July 1918

Grey morning
Eimear O’Callaghan

17th July 1972

Four times I have turned the lights out while writing this
Hamlin Garland

18th July 1939

A decaying mass of flesh and bone
John Berryman

19th July 1947

Only work can save me
Thomas Edison

20th July 1885

Hot weather is the mother of procrastination
Cecil Beaton

21st July 1969

How could such courage be?
Jim Bouton

22nd July 1969

Baseball is not without its charms
Arthur Munby

23rd July 1861

It’s a man!
Roi Ottley

24th July 1944

The French coast was torn up
Harry S. Truman

25th July 1945

The most terrible thing ever discovered
Paula Modersohn-Becker

26th July 1900

If I can paint three good pictures, then I shall go gladly
Alice Dunbar-Nelson

27th July 1929

A glorious, wonderful climax
Florence Farmborough

28th July 1916

Our surgeons never flagged
Dag Hammarskjöld

29th July 1959

Humility
Chris McCandless

30th July 1992

GREAT JEOPARDY
Iris Origo

31st July 1939

There is no human being in the world whom he loves and trusts

Month: July