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There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why…

— James Righton

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create…

— Marva Dawn

“Collectibles have little intrinsic value and are thus subject to the whims and speculations of buyers and sellers.”

— Eric Tyson

“All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away”

— C.J. Tudor

“Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a…

— Amanda Petrusich

“It's like the Boss always says: they're just meat wrapped around a blazing star. We don't mourn the wrapping once it's discarded, we celebrate…

— Stephen Kelman

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and…

— David Elliott

“The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no…

— David Morrell

“How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility? What pleases these lovers of toys is not so much…

— Adam Smith

“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the reasons for…

— Gabriella Bennett

“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”

— wallace stevens

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often…

— Amor Towles