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Rory MacLean Quotes

Canadian - Historian | November 5, 1954 -

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

Change Identity Volatility Stability

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

Kind Comfortable Become Bricks Some

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.

Value Cold Facts See Reporting

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.

West Working Berlin David Bowie

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'

Thought White Nervous Will Him Here

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Love Characteristics Most Germans

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

Dress People Me Speak Design Ice

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Imagination City Me Process Reality

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

Creative City Me London Fresh Faces

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Communication Me Process Conversation

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