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Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique… — Nick Hornby
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson
Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique… — Karen Chance
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. — Josh Lanyon
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami
White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the… — Lilith Saintcrow
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,… — Fannie Flagg
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch… — Oscar Wilde
Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or… — Ally Carter
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand… — Emily Dickinson
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove. — Ted Hughes
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. — Oscar Wilde
The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I was banished from… — Becca Fitzpatrick
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't… — Julian Barnes
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in… — Malcolm Cowley
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For… — William Golding
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not… — Paul Engle
I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about… — Anthony Warlow
I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London. — Bonnie Tyler
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or… — Margaret O'Brien
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was… — Dita Von Teese
Hobbies come and go, Ive collected art, coins, gems, stamps, antiques, love, friends, enemies and emotions but I never thought of collecting myself! The only… — Unknown Author

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