Susan Stewart quotes
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“The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.”
-- Susan StewartSource : Susan Stewart (1984). “On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection”, p.38, Duke University Press
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“To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.”
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“The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.”
-- Susan Stewart
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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