Author: Rory MacLean

Quotes

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

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

- Rory MacLean

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

- Rory MacLean

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

- Rory MacLean

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

- Rory MacLean

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

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

- Rory MacLean

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.

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.

- Rory MacLean

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