"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"
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"Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene."
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"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
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"Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space."
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"I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime."
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"We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception."
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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."
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"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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"We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people."
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"Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
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"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."
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"Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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"I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it."
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"The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists."
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"When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today."
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"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."
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"We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal."
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"I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence."
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