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    In this superworld, with its supercharged, super-intense and superwoman exuberance, I combined the super-sized enthusiasm of California Abstract Expressionism with hard-edged Swiss graphics, and ended up with, however superfluous and superficial, Supergraphics.
    [barbara stauffacher solomon]
     
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    It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.
    [georg christoph lichtenberg, 1779]
     
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    If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. Some people need more trouble to operate and some people need less.
    [robert rauschenberg]
     
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    And the buildings were quite unlike any I knew. The traffic in the streets was strange, carts running with no horses to pull them; and sometimes there were things in the sky, shiny fish-shaped things that certainly were not birds.
    [john wyndham, the chrysalids]
     
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    We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.
    [haruki murakami, a wild sheep chase]
     
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    6.1.3


    Choose faces that will survive, and if possible prosper, under the final printing conditions.

    [robert bringhurst, the elements of typographic style]
     
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    Oh! the little more, and how much it is!
    And the little less, and what worlds away!
    [robert browning]
     
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    Anytime I can write a good letter Tubby it’s a sign I’m not working.
    [ernest hemingway in a letter to gen. r. o. barton, 1945]
     
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    ‘Confabulation’ means the replacement of the gaps left by a disordered memory with imaginary happenings.
    [anthony burgess]
     
  10. {+}
    Ideas cannot be owned. They belong to whoever understands them….
    A work of art, said Gertrude Stein, is either worthless or priceless.
    [sol lewitt]
     
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    5.1.4


    Consider even the lowly hyphen.

    [robert bringhurst, the elements of typographic style]
     
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    Everyone is going forward.
    And everyone is behind everyone.
    And everyone is looking ahead. To the future.
    And people walk together. In step.
    [maira kalman, the principles of uncertainty]
     
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    Ah things ain’t what they used to be, no no
    Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas
    Fish full of mercury
    [marvin gaye, mercy mercy me (the ecology)]
     
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    She asked where he lived.
    ‘Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.’
    [j.m. barrie, peter pan]