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In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like…

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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…
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or…
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as…
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…
Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
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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