Diaries of Note

Czesław Miłosz

9th October 1987

Would it be possible to live every minute attentively?
Sofia Tolstoy

8th October 1862

No sooner am I happy, than he crushes me
Alvin C. York

7th October 1918

All through the long night those big guns flashed and growled
Kenneth Rose

6th October 1985

For twelve years we lied about it
Richelene Mitchell

5th October 1973

Oh, self, they make me so sick!
Anne Lamott

4th October 1989

The ultimate bovine humiliation
Barbara Bush

3rd October 1992

I am absolutely convinced that George is going to lose
Michael MacDonagh

2nd October 1916

It was so horribly fascinating that I felt spellbound
Frances Partridge

1st October 1967

I have woken fairly early to think about human life
Stephen Spender

30th September 1939

The important thing is to keep going
Dawn Powell

29th September 1945

She cured me of the disease of night fear
Dorothy Day

28th September 1940

Man cannot live long without joy
John Dos Passos

27th September 1918

Come ennui
James Boswell

26th September 1773

You drunken dog
Dorothea Moulton Balano

25th September 1911

I shan’t worry about my girth
Brian Cox

24th September 1990

It’s almost impossible to know what to say
Etty Hillesum

23rd September 1942

Every atom of hate we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable
Sherwood Anderson

22nd September 1938

Sunk deeply into the blues
Benoîte Groult

21st September 1940

We are like helpless animals
Ford Madox Brown

20th September 1854

The Last of England
Richard E. Grant

19th September 1991

Meet a twenty-four-year-old scriptwriter called J.J.
Guy Liddell

18th September 1952

The Luminous Man
Malcolm Muggeridge

17th September 1932

Lenin’s tomb is remarkable
Hallie Eustace Miles

16th September 1917

We simply dread the moon
Dian Fossey

15th September 1985

This is where it hits
Eamon Dunphy

14th September 1973

At some stage in the season, failure is going to stare you in the face
Robert Schumann

13th September 1840

Industry, Thrift, and Loyalty
Louise Bogan

12th September 1933

I put all this down in order to clarify my own heart
Andy Horwitz

11th September 2001

I can’t find the words
Charles à Court Repington

10th September 1918

We mutually agreed to call it The First World War
Jack Kerouac

9th September 1948

I’m getting more confident and angrier each time

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