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“Stories and objects share something, a patina...Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed...But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.”
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
“The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.”
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
“How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?”
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
“And rather impressive – I want to be bourgeois and ask how you find time for five children, a husband and a lover?”
― The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
― The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
“There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can something gain you a space in which to live.”
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
― The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
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