#to

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#asked #dislocated #enough #grind #i

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#got #into #left #mother #nothing

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#friendship #heart #in print #makes #print

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy

Libraries are not made, they grow. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#grow #libraries #made

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ↗