Rosemary Mahoney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dirty #Writing #Nasty
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
The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
-- Rosemary Mahoney

#Lying #Heart #Witness
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
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
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
-- Rosemary Mahoney

#Athletic #Students #Good Students
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
-- Rosemary Mahoney

#Self #Miserable #Blind
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

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.
Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.

Rosemary Mahoney famous quotes

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