"[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table."

-- Elsa Maxwell

#Book Quotes #Museums Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.”
“I love Thelonious Monk's song "Just a Gigolo." It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized, because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.”

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“All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.”
“Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.”
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
“I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.”
“Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.”
“We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.”

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