Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet Quotes

“Not one of us knows what we can do, until one fine day, we stand up and do it.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Look at me." Rosalind speaks very quietly. "Look at the way I choose to live. Ask yourself just how tough a person has to be to live like this.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“They are practical, and practical is beautiful.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Sad fact is, it doesn't take much to amuse most people. But this is what you need to understand: any good confidence game is built on two pillars - what people want and what they fear.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Look at me.” Rosalind speaks very quietly. “Look at the way I choose to live. Ask yourself just how tough a person has to be to live like this.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“we could rebuild the Brooklyn Bridge with the bodies of black men who didn’t do anything.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“If you get him talking about opera? Suddenly he’s got more camp than Yellowstone!”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Look at me—I’m a dwarf and a Jew. You’re a Negro and legless. Add ‘anarchist’ and you’ve got the Trifecta of Fucked.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Just a typical few days at Magruder's," Rosaline says.
"Plague, death, imminent doom."

"Excellent." Zeph grins.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Yes, here. Anywhere. Everywhere.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Good. Unusuals can't afford to be anarchists, Zeph. Look at me - I'm a dwarf and a Jew. You're a Negro and legless. Add 'anarchist' and you've got the Trifecta of F***ed. Don't do it.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“Although she sits quietly, there’s a squelching, sickening fear inside, turning her limbs to water. What will she do? Where will she go? Will she die on this bench, unseen and unmourned? Battling with her fear is fury. At the hotel, for tossing her out on the street. At her mother, for somehow allowing it to happen. At the children, for frolicking in the waves without a care. How dare they? She knows the thought is irrational, but it comes anyway. How dare they be so happy? As”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet