John Carter > Quotes

“Magpies have an acquisitive instinct, and a similarly indiscriminate passion for accumulating junk afflicts one in a hundred of the human race. But that is not what we mean by a collector.”
― John Carter, Taste & Technique in Book Collecting

“Before his dreams had been fragile, insubstantial things, like strands of gossamer and they would fall apart and fade as soon as his eyes opened to the light of a new morning.”
― John Carter, The Abandoned Orphanage