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The present has become discontinuous. Each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content.
“Words matter.”
― Truth in Advertising
― Truth in Advertising
“Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.”
― The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
― The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”
― Truth in Advertising
― Truth in Advertising
“Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oop!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“If rock and roll was the common tongue, maybe Rolling Stone could be a translation device.”
― Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
― Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
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