Author's changes have been placed in italics.
Exhibitions
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
“There is no exhibition so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
“So it isn’t the masses who are to blame for demanding rubbish, but rather those who aren’t capable of providing them with anything else.”Interpretive philosophy
“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”Museum Manager
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
“... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...”
“Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.”
“Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,”Museum Cutbacks
"Thou hast seen nothing yet.”Museum Forward Plans
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Think Long-term
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
“Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,”Writing object labels
“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”Desperate measures to increase income?
“Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !”Dealing with senior management
“I’m a peaceful, mild, and quiet man, and I know how to conceal any insult because I have a wife and children to support and care for.”Career choices
“What is more dangerous than to become a curator? Which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”Finally...
Quickly improve staff morale
“I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour.."
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