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Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

John Updike
Exercise, Thinking, Museums
"A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.