"Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name."

-- Frederic Goudy

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“Every spoken word arouses our self-will.”
“Music, not sex, got me aroused.”
“The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner, Jagdish Mehra, Arthur S. Wightman (1997). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.535, Springer Science & Business Media
“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
“Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.”
“I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“A lot of learning canbe a little thing.”
“No revolution can be made with silk gloves.”

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