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Music is the only thing that makes sense anymore.
The power of literature lies in its ability to disturb, to question, to undermine what is taken for granted.
We are all just echoes of something that once was.
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
You are what you love.
I'm fearless in the pursuit of what sets my soul on fire.
The journey of an object can tell us more than the object itself.
The things we own are the things that own us.
We make things to remember, and we remember by making things.
Porcelain is the most alchemical of materials, turning earth into something that seems to hold light.
To collect is to gather things to yourself, to take things from the world and make them part of your own story.
Objects have always been carried, sold, bartered, stolen, retrieved and lost. People have always given things to other people.
The past is a mirror, but we often see only what we want to see.
"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."
The truth about a person is often found in what they tried to hide.
Letters are the biographer's gold mine; they reveal what official records conceal.
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way.
Memory is a slippery thing, always shifting and reshaping itself.
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
We are all haunted by something, whether we admit it or not.