"that darkest of syllables, death."

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Source : Mary McMullen (1987). “The Other Shoe”, Jove Publications

Mary McMullen

“Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.”
“That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.”
“Use your power gently.”
“The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”
“To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”
“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
“Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!”
“Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.”

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