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Source: Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze

“perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.”

Love Mind Said Use Problem Age Fighting Brain Battle Argument Affection Museums Laughed Display Tempted Alas Quarrels Visitors

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.”

Used Found Fronts Fields Couple Spots Code Museums Satisfying Parking

Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.”

“I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time I felt you, your presence. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it. So you're going to have to become used to that, Rue. It won't change." (Christoff to Rue)”

Want Feels Firsts Looks Moments Wanted Earth Used Names Felt Saws Sky Arms Kissing First Time Museums I Want You You Again Your Presence Rue

Author:Shana Abe

“I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Feels Looks Kind Mean Long Stuff Rooms Example Office Window Boxes British Curious If I Could Museums Rude Drawers Storage British Museum

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

Perfect Museums

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

Men Two Boys Museums Skulls Columbus Havana

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.”

Source: Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection

“I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?”

Mind Believe Eye Running Together I Believe Painting Walking I Believe In Museums Walking Out

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.”

Thinking Made School Mistake Roles Standing Museums Toilets Exhibitions Victoria Women In Society

Book:Starter for Ten: A Novel

Source: Starter for Ten: A Novel

“Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.”

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Book:Push: A Novel

Source: Push: A Novel

“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.”

Night Dad British London Museums British Museum

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]”

Facts Sound British Backgrounds Thanks Museums Geek Yelling Sadie British Museum

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”

World Heart Art Eye Film Life Is Easy Cameras Oneness Museums Bright Eyes

Author:Ansel Adams

“I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.”

Desire Hours Flesh Lust Museums Pot Carpet

Book:The letters of Virginia Woolf

Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

Real Space Museums Transformed Familiar Places

Book:The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”

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Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.”

Made Studios Mess Museums Bedroom Canvas Journal Rosa

Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.”

Ifs Cities Quiet Breaths Museums Dublin

Author:Derek Landy

“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”

Ifs Feelings Literature Natural Museums Funeral Attending Natural History

Book:The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies

“The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.”

Thinking World Said Trouble Huge Museums Visitors

Book:The Untouchable

Source: The Untouchable

“Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?”

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Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.”

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Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.”

Thinking Looks Mean Rooms Painting Witness Museums Far Away Near And Far

Author:Julio Cortazar

“If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.”

Ifs Loses Fronts Museums Glands Curator

Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Children Art Know How Taught Museums

Author:Steve Martin

“So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”

Paris Museums

Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.”

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Author:John Green

“Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go in your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.”

Thinking Book Done Stories Reading House Rooms Secret Wonder Objects Dad Picks Boxes Remembered Museums Cabinets Curator

Author:Brian Selznick

“I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

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Book:Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

Source: Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”

Wells Heart Objects Findings Losing Built Museums Compulsion

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?”

Matter Purpose Individual Memories Novel Share Relate Museums Sincerity Our Memories Individual Happiness

Book:The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.”

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Author:Libba Bray

“As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.”

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Author:Louise Glück

“Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.”

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Author:Pat Conroy

“I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.”

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Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.”

Should Looks Art Learning Painting Balance Dance Dancer Museums Choreographers Enriching Enrichment Inspirational Art

Author:Alicia Alonso

“I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.”

Music Pieces Jazz Artistic Meant To Be Museums Were Meant To Be

Author:Miles Davis

“~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~”

“The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.”

Looks Home Would Be Trouble Worst Travel Jokes Museums Tourism

Book:Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .”

Source: Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones

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