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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
Toni Bentley

5th January 1981

The same ballets, season after season
Katherine Mansfield

4th January 1920

The black fit