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“Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.”
- Rosemary Mahoney,
- For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
- (2014)
“The kingfisher was a murderous bird, a kind of flying jackknife.”
- Rosemary Mahoney,
- Down the Nile Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
- (2007)
“I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.”
- Rosemary Mahoney,
- Down the Nile Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
- (2007)

(1961)