Read moreCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Read moreLet the machine do the dirty work.
Brian Kernighan
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Read moreBeauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.
Marina Abramović
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Tags: 1900s, 2000s, Artist, authenticity, b. 1946, beauty, Performance artist, Serbian American, time, truth
Read moreIt’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.
Jerry Seinfeld
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Read morePlease, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma-maniac, on your editorial staff?
Mary Norris
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Read moreThe Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.
Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Read moreHow to write a good short story:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Read moreDowntown L.A. looks like they started to build Chicago and then gave up…and let it become a sprawling suburb.
Gary Oldman
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Read moreIt was as undesigned as possible.
Michael Bierut
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Tags: 1900s, 2000s, American, b. 1957, Cleveland, design, graphic design, Graphic designer, New York City, Ohio, simplicity, typography