“Use your fucking brain. People don’t think enough. People don’t use their brain. They use copy-paste. Your brain is free. It is fast. Wickedly fast.”

— Erik Spiekermann (1947), German typographer and designer (via eventhestarsdie)

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Lisa Congdon

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“Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.”

— Yasiin Bey (via thechanelmuse)

(Source: ilikechocolatemilkalot, via someotherchick)

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“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

— “The Grim Grotto” -Lemony Snicket (via rainydayquotes)

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

— CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)

(Source: kadrey, via wilwheaton)

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“I’m obviously a typomaniac which is an incurable, if not mortal disease.”

— Erik Spiekermann

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“That’s what makes a nation’s conscience, the visuals. Good architecture, good food, good timetables.”

— Erik Spiekermann

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“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter.”

— Margaret Atwood (via astrangersstory)

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“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

— John Cage (via thegreatunseen)

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