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"It’s about process. It’s about communication."
— Quote from Sam Macon on the craft of hand-painting signs. Via brainpickings.
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"The ’49ers were Herculean workers but more interested in enjoying the trappings of civilization than in building one. That task fell to the farmers, grocers, carpenters, merchants, entrepreneurs, and other skilled tradesmen who followed to make a living and build fortunes on the miners’ lucre and on their failures. This combination of eminent practicality and pie-in-the-sky fabulism still shapes the character of the state."
— http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_4_urb-tom-wolfes-california.html?src=longreads
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"the night spins a fine membrane, like the film inside an eggshell"
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Roxana Robinson
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/on-writing-in-the-morning.html#ixzz2HL2YBvMT
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This beautiful photo essay shows the researching, writing, and editing process of Robert Caro, journalist and author of Lyndon B. Johnson biographies.
