"When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like."

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Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lucy Grealy

#Beautiful Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.”
“Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.”
“I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.”
“Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.”
“It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.”
“All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.”

Source : "Two Concepts of Liberty". Book by Isaiah Berlin, 1958.
“I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.”
“You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.”

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