34 Quotes About Collections


  • Author Adam Savage
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    I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)

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  • Author Will Ludwigsen
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    The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector’s need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It’s too much—and it’s just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

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  • Author Steve Ballmer
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    I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

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  • Author George Carlin
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    Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!

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