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Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.


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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.



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.



When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

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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No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness.

No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness.



You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.



I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.



Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.



Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love



You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.



I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.



If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.



What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.



I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.




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