Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

• Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Dirty, Writing, Nasty

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• I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Moving, Light, Color

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• The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Lying, Heart, Witness

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• I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Thinking, Mets, Memoir

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• Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Sight, Perception, Slick

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• I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Athletic, Students, Good Students

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• I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Self, Miserable, Blind

  "Lessons On Blindness, 'For The Benefit Of Those Who See'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www-s4.npr.org. January 12, 2014.

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• I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Morning, Writing, Procrastination

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