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Dots [...]: Small marks variously made to indicate infinity, hesitation, duplication, or lack of imagination.

— Peter Greenaway

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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.

Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?

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Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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