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Amy Amy said: " I had no idea Moby Dick was so slapstickly, darkly, cleverly hilarious! And so gay! I was laughing out loud and thought I might be reading a joke version, like Moby Dick retold by Sarah Vowell — nope! (though that would also be awesome) Wish I would ...more "

 
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Book cover for Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less (Revised and Updated)
Smart Brevity, in written form, has four main parts, all easy to learn and put into practice—and then teach. They don’t apply in every circumstance but will help you begin to get your mind around the shifts you need to make.
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Cornelia Funke
“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

Robert Bringhurst
“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .”
Robert Bringhurst

Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Buchi Emecheta
“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”
Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

Richard Dawkins
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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