Diaries of Note

Spike Milligan

5th December 1943

BOREDOM, HOMESICK, LOVESICK
Charles Ritchie

4th December 1941

What a pack of lies intimate journals are
Jennifer Bonner

3rd December 1988

Now is the time
Rainer Maria Rilke

2nd December 1900

On sculptures
Werner Herzog

1st December 1974

One pheasant behaved like a madman
Iris Murdoch

30 November 1952

Demented with grief
H.L. Mencken

29th November 1939

Any visitor to the hospital is free to barge into his room
George Eliot

28th November 1857

I have especially enjoyed this autumn
Howard Carter

27th November 1922

The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive
Arthur Ashe

26th November 1973

The human is a creature of paradox
John Howard Griffin

25th November 1959

The hate stare was everywhere practiced
Aldous Huxley

24th November 1925

Standing on the ramparts of Jodhpur fort
Christopher Columbus

23rd November 1492

They were struck with terror
Lady Bird Johnson

22nd November 1963

It all began so beautifully
Frank Worsley

21st November 1915

She’s going, boys!
Sir Walter Scott

20th November 1825

I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting
Rachel Roberts

19th November 1980

I did so want to be a great actress
Kenneth Tynan

18th November 1973

To pay up would constitute a precedent
Avraham Tory

17th November 1942

The Jewish police have been ordered to erect the gallows
Seamus Heaney

16th November 1980

It is like a building site, abandoned in November
William Henry Brewer

15th November 1863

Now all is gone
Hugh Gaitskell

14th November 1947

How easy it is to say the wrong thing!
Julian Green

13th November 1929

I am dead and, exactly as I foresaw, I still exist
Carl Jung

12th November 1913

My soul, my soul, where are you?
Queen Mary

11th November 1918

The greatest day in the world’s history
Pamela Des Barres

10th November 1969

The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen
Sylvia Townsend Warner

9th November 1969

Then, no more
Catherine Deneuve

8th November 1969

When a shot goes badly, I feel like a useless object
Vladimir Nabokov

7th November 1964

An impossible scene in the real past
Sir Alec Guinness

6th November 1995

We puny mortals
Nina Kosterina

5th November 1941

The days are full of anxious expectation

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