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Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or…
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Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
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Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or…
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Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
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If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as…
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…
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Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
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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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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…
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Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of…
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Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch…
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In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order…
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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that.…
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide…
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
— Tom Clancy
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on…
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I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction.…
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the…
— George Eliot
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold…
— Gautama Buddha
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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
— Amy Tan
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I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think…
— Jeff Gordon
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Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is…
— Stephen King
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The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.
— Rebecca Wells
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