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Robert Bringhurst Quotes: Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.
         

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.


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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.



Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

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.



Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

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.



Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.



Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.



By all means break the rules.

By all means break the rules.



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.

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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