THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Now, nature, as I am only too aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them. To put it bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.”

― Fran Lebowitz

BIRTHDAYS:

1782 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso and composer (24 Caprices). Cantabile, and La Campanella

1811 Isaac Singer, American inventor (practical home sewing machine)

1872 Emily Post, American writer and etiquette authority

1914 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Under Milk Wood)

1950 Fran Lebowitz, American author

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