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Robert Bringhurst Quotes: Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.
         

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.


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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.



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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.



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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 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.



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Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.



Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.



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By all means break the rules.



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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.





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