"In a way, my father was lucky. He……" — Paul Mellon
"In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right."
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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