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Jan 2026

7^th January

When making music or creating any other kind of art, one must always strive to provide something one cannot find elsewhere in the world, rather than just Joining In and diltuing instead of adding.

Dickon Edwards, entry for 4 Feb 2004, Diary at the Centre of the Earth, Vol 1 1997-2007 (2026)

14^th January

None of the experts tried to suggest that they were well up in the lore of monkeys, but when they were shown the obvious they made haste to declare that it was indeed obvious. This is one of the things experts are frequently called upon to do.

Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone (The Cornish Trilogy #2) (1986)

21^st January

[H]er heart was, if not necessarily in the right place, at least somewhere in that vicinity, like a kitchen utensil not actually lost, but not in its proper drawer.

Mick Herron, Clown Town (Slough House #9) (2025)

4^th June