"[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“For every 1 fan I have 20 haters, once I can reach 1000 haters for 1 fan, I know I've made it.”
“All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.”
“I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.”
“I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.199, Granta Books
“I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.”

Source : Diary entry on November 1921. "The Hidden Files". Book by Derek Raymond, 1992.
“Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.”
“I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.”
“Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.”

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