The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways gen…

Lucy Grealy
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The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people. ✨ Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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. ✨ Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face, p.89, Houghton … ▶
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 desp … ▶
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The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

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