"people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume."

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Source : Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

Nancy Mairs

#Fate Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.”
“[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.”

Source : The Daily Express, November 09, 2002.
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016
“Adversity creates heroes.”
“I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.”
“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”
“I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.”

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