Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce at a playground (1955)

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  1. She was a big fan of Joyce.
    She also gave Ella Fitzgerald her first big break. She heard her sing and told a well known nightclub that if they showcased Fitzgerald, she would sit at the main table every night. It changed Ella Fitzgerald’s life.

  2. “Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”

  3. Now we know what set her on the path of destruction that lead to her untimely and sad demise. She read what was hailed as the greatest work of literature in the history of humanity, finished it, said if this shit is the pinnacle of human achievement there is no hope for us as a species.

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