"When you die, your culture takes you in,……" — Robert Bringhurst
"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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25 Quotes by Robert Bringhurst
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Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for…
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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…
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Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft…
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If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of…
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak…
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Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its…
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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…
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Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try…
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In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet…
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In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra…
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance…
— Tony Blair
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing…
— Marina Abramovic
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts,…
— Jean Klein
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
— Frederick Marryat
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
— Rudolf Steiner
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After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
— Emilia Clarke
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The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is…
— Unknown Author
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I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre.…
— Mark Messier
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All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems…
— George MacDonald
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
— George Bernard Shaw
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