"If the world were to end tomorrow and……" — A. A. Gill
"If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us."
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22 Quotes by A. A. Gill
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s…
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day,…
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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