> Ned Rorem on youth: "We admire them for their beauty and they want us to admire them for their minds, the little shits."

Via Charles Baxter in Best American Essays 2013

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*Blindness cuts people off from things, but deafness, cuts them off from people.*

Helen Keller via this [obituary of Robert Panara](http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21610179-robert-panara-poet-and-pioneer-deaf-studies-died-july-20th-aged-94-robert-panara)

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*The best camera is the one you have with you*

[Chase Jarvis](http://www.chasejarvis.com/)

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*When Adam delved, and Eve span, Who was then a Gentleman?*

John Balle

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> I think America is at the crossroads where it will have to choose between its greatness and its decadence.

Alistair Cooke

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"When Boone was asked if he had got lost in that forest, he said: I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."

Letter from Kentucky, J. D. Daniels, Paris Review 203