Language Quote by Jarod Kintz

““I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and popped it in my mouth.””

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“Nothing is and isn’t; nothing is and isn’t—nothing itself is, and at the same time, nothing isn’t.”

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“Embossed letters represent the topography of typography.”

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