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  • Joan Wyndham
    5th February 1944

    I laughed and cried like hell

  • Arthur C. Clarke
    4th February 1966

    We have a masterpiece on our hands

  • Otis Kidwell Burger
    3rd February 1949

    Time is a curious sensation

  • Lord Byron
    2nd February 1821

    If I rouse, it is into fury

  • John Muir
    1st February 1873

    He would not cease singing or feeding for an earthquake

  • Flannery O’Connor
    31st January 1944

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

  • James Cook
    30th January 1774

    Farther than any other man has been before me

  • Bill Haley
    29th January 1956

    Segregation strong here

  • Marion Milner
    28th January 1927

    You must get lost in the part

  • Beatrix Potter
    27th January 1884

    A remarkable instance of a cat’s affection

  • Sir Alex Ferguson
    26th January 1995

    He karate-kicked him

  • Leo Tolstoy
    25th January 1851

    Went to a party and lost my head

  • Đặng Thùy Trâm
    24th January 1970

    Death is so near and simple

  • Alice Ehrmann
    23rd January 1945

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

  • Edvard Munch
    22nd January 1892

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

  • François Truffaut
    21st January 1966

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

  • Frederick Douglass
    20th January 1887

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

  • M. C. Escher
    19th January 1945

    Is the present truly more real than the past?

  • Mary Shelley
    18th January 1824

    My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep

  • James Schuyler
    17th January 1989

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

  • Phyllis Chesler
    16th January 1978

    A breast-feeding Mother will not be tolerated

  • Keith Richards
    15th January 1963

    Charlie swings but hasn’t got right sound yet

  • Mary MacLane
    14th January 1901

    Poor little Mary MacLane!

  • Nelson Mandela
    13th January 1990

    If they got a shock they endured it with grace

  • Chris Atkins
    12th January 2017

    Prisons make hundreds of brutally unjust mistakes every day

  • Jonas Mekas
    11th January 1950

    Never home

  • Matthew Modine
    10th January 1986

    A prehistoric, early man, guttural grunt

  • Marie Bashkirtseff
    9th January 1874

    Love is the most beautiful thing in the world

  • Arthur Crew Inman
    8th January 1947

    To hell with all of them

  • Daniil Kharms
    7th January 1937

    There lived a redheaded man

  • Edmond de Goncourt
    6th January 1871

    The shells have begun falling

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