"To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world."

-- Berenice Abbott

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“The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.”
“I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.”
“Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.”
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media
“We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.”
“I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.”
“The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454
“The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.”

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