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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ The Powerbook

    History is a madman's museum.
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  2. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    If he really wanted to be happy in the world, Horst? To have any kind of joyful or happy life? He should pay twenty grand to go back to his rapid detox place and then come here and smoke Buddha Haze and stand in a museum all day long.
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  3. E.M. Forster _ A Room with a View

    She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
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  4. Orhan Pamuk _ The Museum of Innocence

    This is the greatest consolation in life. 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.
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  5. Orhan Pamuk _ The Innocence of Objects

    We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.
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  6. Orhan Pamuk _ The Museum of Innocence

    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?
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  7. Orhan Pamuk _ The Museum of Innocence

    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.
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  8. Paul Beatty _ The Sellout

    The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus.""Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?""White people. Who the fuck else? Supposedly, every February when schoolkids visit the Rosa Parks Museum, or wherever the fuck the bus is at, the bus they tell the kids is the birthplace of the civil rights movement is a phony. Just some old Birmingham city bus they found in some junkyard. That's what my sister says, anyway.""I don't know."Cuz took two deep swallows of gin. "What you mean, 'You don't know'? You think that after Rosa Parks bitch-slapped white America, some white rednecks going to go out of their way to save the original bus? That'd be like the Celtics hanging Magic Johnson's jersey in the rafters of the Boston Garden. No fucking way.
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  9. Rick Riordan _ The Red Pyramid

    We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?
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