Lucy Grealy Quotes

• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Wisdom, Truth, Hard Work

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

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  Pain, Cancer, Years

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• 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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  Beautiful, Feelings, Ugly

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

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• Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

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  Jobs, People, Underestimate

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

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  Definido

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• Esta singularidad de significado -yo era mi cara, yo era la fealdad-, aunque a veces insoportable, también ofrecía un posible punto de escape. Se convirtió en la plataforma de lanzamiento desde la que despegar, el único lugar inmediatamente reconocible al que señalar cuando me preguntaban qué iba mal en mi vida. Todo conducía a ella, todo se alejaba de ella: mi cara como punto de fuga personal.

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  Vanishing, Faces, Unbearable

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

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  Pain, Simple, Anxiety

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.

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  Art, People, Effort

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• Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

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  Demand, Sometimes, Moments

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

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  Pain, Important, Despair

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

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  Animal, Care

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark

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  Moving, Arrows, Mind

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• En parte, estaba convirtiendo mi timidez en un instrumento de tortura, lo bastante afilado y eficaz como para durarme el resto de mi vida.

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  Self, Lasts, Consciousness

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• All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

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  Hopeful, Confusing, World

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• Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

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  Giving, Doe, Shapes

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• Solía pensar que una vez que sabías algo de verdad, su verdad brillaba para siempre. Ahora me parece bastante obvio que la mayoría de las veces las pilas se gastan, y a veces lo que sabías incluso se apaga de golpe cuando intentas recurrir a ello, como una bombilla que se apaga al darle al interruptor.

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  Thinking, Shine On, Light

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• The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

  Lucy Grealy

  Ignorance, Different, Plot

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• I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

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  Nostalgia, Affair, Nostalgic

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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