Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is … - Eric Gill

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How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

Eric Gill

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

Character, Conservatism, Entirely, Men, Monumental, Writing

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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Appeals, Apples, Derive, Girl, Moon, Say

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Art, Different, Kind, Person, Artist

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Bridges, Building, Gothic, Iron, Real, Sugar

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Design, Different, Letters, Fools, Kinds

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Letters, Pictures, Things