"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner's head."

Walker, Katharine on things and little things   

"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."

Whitman, Walt on things and little things
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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."

Benjamin, Walter on things and little things   

"As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on things and little things   

"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things
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"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things   

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth."

Elytis, Odysseus on things and little things
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"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."

Picasso, Pablo on things and little things