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Stories are the reproductive organs of language.


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By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.



Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.



Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.



Typography exists to honor content.

Typography exists to honor content.



Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.



Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.



Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.



By all means break the rules.

By all means break the rules.



The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.



When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.





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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.



I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.

I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.



There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?



We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.



So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.



When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.

When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.



But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.



You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win



For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!



I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.




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